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CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION . 

THE AQUARIAN RAYS 

THE BUDDHIC WAVE 

THE FORTY-NINE FIRES 

SATAN .... 

THE SECRET ORANGE PLANET 

THE LIFE VEHICLES 

THE ORIGIN AND MANIFESTATION OF 

MEMORY 

TIME AND ETERNITY 

THE SECRET OF KARMA 

THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW 

POLARITY 

THRONES 

THE BASIC PHYSICAL . 

THE SECRET IN PRANA 

BAPTISM • . 

MATERIAL RICHES . 

TO THE WOULD-BE-PUPIL OF THE 

THE EARTH CHAIN 

RESURRECTION . 

THE NEW BIRTH 

THE FOUNDATION ATOMS 

A MYSTERY OF RE-EMBODIMENT 

THE RAISING OF THE DEAD . 

THE PLACE OF HIS APPEARING 



MIND 



MASTERS 



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THE AVATAR . 

THE NEW AGE .... 

CHRISTIAN ROSENKRANZ 

THE TASK OF EMBODIED AND OF DISEMBODIED 

MIND ..... 
SOME ASPECTS OF POSTHUMOUS LIFE 
THE MESSAGE OF A BUDDHIC MASTER . 
THE EGOLESS BEING . 
SPIRIT GUIDES 
PSYCHIC VISION 
THE POSTHUMOUS VIEWPOINT 
THE EIGHTH SPHERE . 
HEART CENTERS 
THE GREAT BREATH 
THE MASTER HILARION 
ARMAGEDDON 
ELECTRICAL ENERGY 
THE DAYS OF THE LORD 
JUDAS 

SWEDENBORG AND THE ANCIENT WISDOM 
THE UNKNOWABLE SUPREME 
AVITCHI ..... 
LEVITATION ..... 
ISHVARA . . . . 

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IN submitting this third volume of the series 
begun with "Special Teachings from the 
Arcane Science," the author is aware that the 
times are not yet ready for much of its contents. 
Still the rapidly widening outlook of multitudes 
encourages the venture, and gives promise that, 
ere the coming of a great event — one for which 
in humble way this book is a preparation — certain 
of its chapters will be accepted, and even assimi- 
lated, by those whose eyes are toward the New 
Age now almost with us, and whose hearts are 
preparing for that large and complete message of 
which these pages contain only hints and fragments. 

Should our explanations leave many matters 
more or less dark, it is because we ourselves have 
not yet come into the day, or else that the full light 
of explanation must await the word of mouth from 
the World Teacher himself. 

From the title of the preceding volume, "The 
Heart of Things," it might be inferred that in its 
probings and soundings we thought to reach the 
central mysteries; but, like the human heart, the 
heart of things is seven-fold. So, despite our 
previous attempt, and notwithstanding our present 
effort, the deepest deep remains unknown. 

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Far from subscribing to the theory that matter 
is but the three-dimensional aspect of spirit, the 
author holds that both spirit and matter, each in 
some crude condition, existed as positive and 
negative before time began, and, because naturally 
the more active, spirit has progressed enormously, 
though not necessarily to perfection, during 
unnumbered aeons. On the other hand, matter, 
that form of electrical energy with which, on 
this lowly planet, man is most familiar, has 
reached only the condition now obtaining in our 
solar system and beyond it. 

Furthermore, the author holds that matter shall 
be refined to a state of permanency as such. No 
doubt this matter will be quite unlike any sub- 
stance which man at present has knowledge of, 
and perhaps its permanence will not be attained 
until the Universe in toto has evolved to a definite 
degree, or even to the utmost. 

The resurrected body of Jesus was the first 
recorded hint of the possibilities inherent in mat- 
ter; but, we contend, that body was only the 
notable beginning of a condition both of mankind 
and the World itself, — a condition depicted by the 
Revelator who saw: "the Holy City, the New 
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven." 
To John, this condition was an earthly one wherein 
" there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor 
crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for 
the former things are passed away." 

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Would that it were our privilege to amplify the 
few hints touching the possibilities of matter 
which we have dropped like seeds on the pages of 
this final volume of our series. Such an explana- 
tion would indeed be the culmination of the entire 
teachings. As it is, we cherish the belief that to 
some more worthy and capable pupil will be given 
much that for sufficient reasons has been withheld 
from us. 

Yielding to the request of many readers of 
"Arcane Science" and "The Heart of Things," 
we have in "The Deeper Mysteries" often affixed 
the initials of certain Masters to the teachings 
received from them. 

Edward Clarence Farnsworth. 



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THE DEEPER MYSTERIES 

THE AQUARIAN RAYS 

IN an article in "The Nineteenth Century and 
After" for September, 1917, Mr. A. P. Sinnett 
says: "The superphysical powers of good and 
evil are now engaged in the fiercest struggle for 
supremacy that has been waged in the whole 
history of the Solar System." 

This important information, doubtless obtained 
from those who know, is devoid of details; there- 
fore let us amplify the brief statement of our dis- 
tinguished author. 

In previous teachings of this series, we have 
shown our globe-chain to be the only one proper 
to a physical evolution of which septenary man 
will become the perfect product. To other worlds, 
our own is known as the dark star. This because 
of the unusual obstacles besetting the evolution 
of a planet destined to be the substantial base of 
the scheme comprising seven globe chains. 

Though in large degree man rises because of his 
own efforts, yet in a larger he progresses through 
the lifting power of beings higher and higher in the 
scale reaching to and even beyond the lofty zodia- 
cal Hierarchies. With the advent of the Sun in 
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from that constellation to our physical earth both 
a revelation of Truth higher than any before, and 
an incentive to its assimilation throughout the 
world. 

From the Zodiac to the Solar Logos the lines of 
force are unimpeded; besides, the Sun is a perfect 
receiver. But, between the Sun and our physical 
globe, conditions at present are far different, and 
for several reasons. To begin with, our physical 
globe and its humanity are the most imperfect 
receivers of the zodiacal forces to be found in the 
globe chains of the septenary series. This fact is 
as patent to the dark hosts as to those of light and 
love. 

Were it not for the coming Avatar, whose heart 
is more fit to receive the emanations of Aquarian 
truth than that of any other being thus far evolved 
on our planet, these emanations might, outside of 
certain quarters, prove only of slight benefit. As 
elsewhere explained, these emanations are in fact 
a buddhic fire extremely discomforting to the dark 
hosts who well know that should this fire find 
lodging, even as sparks, in the hearts of the com- 
ponents of the incipient sixth sub-race, those 
sparks will kindle and grow and, eventually, in the 
next cycle of Aquarius, they will become that flame 
which will make the sixth root race enduring 
throughout the remainder of the fourth planetary 
round. 

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demoralization of Earth's depraved hosts, to occur 
at the great cycle which, ages hence, will usher in 
the sixth root race. Because our opponents are 
aware of their immediate danger, and a greater to 
come, the battle is on; a matter of life or death to 
the dark ones who strive, by means of infernal arts, 
to deflect the unstayable Aquarian Rays, and turn 
them into the deeps of space. 

At the time of the old Atlantean struggle, the 
enemies of the hosts of light made no effort to 
deflect the zodiacal forces; but while, since then, 
the White Lodge has progressed greatly in knowl- 
edge, experience, and wisdom, the Black Lodge 
has gained almost equally in fiendish cunning. 
As result, at the outbreak of the War in Heaven, 
early in the first decade of the present century, the 
Black Lodge for the first time began its present 
methods. 

Moreover, this body soon was enabled to enlist 
to its cause the brutalized kamic hosts of Mars, 
and those chief est of adepts in all infernal arts, the 
kama-manasic hosts of Saturn; whereat there sped 
to the rescue of Earth's imperilled humanity those 
Lords of the Flame the wielders of the manasic 
fire of Venus, and also the Manasa Putra, the 
Sons of Wisdom who direct the supreme buddhic 
fire of Mercury. Over this mightiest of strivings 
the Jovian Hierarchy sat seemingly aloof, but 
really as Judge and final Arbiter. 

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determination are by no means confined to the 
enemies of Right, and, as Mr. Sinnett in his article 
affirms, the outcome is assured. To this let us 
add that not again in this earth manvantara can 
such a conflict occur. 

Foiled in its attempts to turn the buddhic Rays, 
the Dark Lodge achieved a minor success in that 
it was able to inject into the hearts of those whom, 
in this cycle of World Karma, retribution has left 
vulnerable to such attack, that malignity which 
was the mainspring of its efforts against the White. 
By linking their own Karma to that of these dupes, 
our opponents doomed them to overthrow. Thus 
does the wise and good Law sometimes accomplish 
its object through its sworn enemies. 

H. 



THE BUDDHIC WAVE 

IN the book "The Heart of Things," and in the 
chapter "The Coming Avatar," was given, as 
far as permissible, the esoteric reason for the descent 
of an Avatar; so let us say briefly that a major 
Avatar is the vehicle of the principal called Buddhi, 
the knower of the essential nature of man's every 
act both in the present life and in former births. 
Because of the inner unity of all beings, these good 
or evil acts are, on inner planes, done to oneself. 
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incarnate being, Buddhi becomes the vehicle of 
karmic Law. 

In the presence of Buddhi, falsehood unmasks 
and truth asserts itself. Thus the enmity of the 
Pharisees toward the Master was open; nor could 
it be concealed. Judas the hypocrite must reveal 
himself as the betrayer of his Lord. The faithful 
disciples must renounce worldly goods and follow 
the Christ. The hosannas of Palm Sunday soon 
sounded their true meaning in the cry: " Crucify 
Him!" The saying of Jesus: " I came not to bring 
peace, but a sword," contained nothing of 
hostility, but rather the truth that, in the light of 
his presence, secret enmity would become open 
warfare. 

Into the conflicts which, during certain cycles 
like the present one, occur between the white and 
the dark hosts of the invisible world, weapons 
corresponding with the crude ones of human war- 
fare never enter. Merely by their principle of 
Buddhi, and its emanations, the white brother- 
hoods would disconcert the black. These in turn 
seek some vulnerable part in the lower principles of 
their opponents, and, because with the white per- 
fection is by no means universal, the battle often 
fluctuates even as recently it did. Never since 
Atlantean times when victory hung long in the 
balance, but finally turned to the White Brother- 
hood, never since then have the black multitudes 
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such warfare been as general as recently it was, 
and never as then were the white forces so able to 
cope with their adversaries. 

Ever a dispenser of karmic Justice, the Buddhic 
Wave — that emanation from the heart of Being — 
is largely a trinity of Atma, Buddhi and Manas; 
in other words a trinity of spiritual will, pure love, 
and high intelligence. High intelligence guides 
the operation of pure love which spiritual will 
causes to persist. As the revealer of actual con- 
ditions, the Buddhic Wave, now preceding the 
descent of the great Avatar, threw to the surface, 
as the war of nations, the fact that these nations 
have long been at secret enmity. 

In forward and retrograde passage through the 
twelve signs, the Sun is chief agent of Buddhi 
in its aspect as Karma to this world. Without 
the Sun's passage through the signs, Karma would 
be inoperative here; consequently all evolutionary 
progress would have been stayed at the outset. 

Always the Buddhic Wave descends directly 
from the Sun to Earth, and, for that matter, to all 
planets of our system; but for Earth that wave 
differs in quality and degree according to the signs 
and the position of the Sun therein as seen by us. 
As the Sun approaches a sign, the Buddhic Wave 
begins to take on the characteristics of that sign, 
and to lose those of the sign in which it already is. 
During the Sun's forward movement, these rapid 
changes but little affect the lower principles of 

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mankind as a whole; so the resulting Karma is to 
the individual, and the family, and possibly the 
community; but, in the retrograde two-thousand- 
year passage from sign to sign, ample time is 
allowed for world-wide influence. 

Exoteric Astrology assumes that to the human 
race the influences of the Moon and the planets 
can at times be as malign as at other times they are 
helpful; but some little explanation will show the 
fallacy of this view. 

The Buddhic Wave from the Sun to our Earth 
is seven-fold, or, more strictly, ten-fold; also it is 
wholly pure. Moreover, a wave of pure energy 
reaches Earth from each of the planets in the 
following order: Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, 
Mars, the secret violet planet, Neptune, Uranus, 
and the outmost or undiscovered planet. Sooner 
or later the wave from every planet unites with 
that from the Sun, but, by the repulsion of the 
sun wave, any impurity emanating from any 
planet is thrown back upon its birthplace. 

The planetary waves are by no means direct; 
thus the wave from Jupiter, one of pure spiritual 
will, is drawn to, and unites with the sun wave 
quite near the Sun itself. The wave from Mer- 
cury, one of spiritual will and pure love, unites 
with the sun wave a little below. The wave from 
Venus is three-fold, high intelligence being the new 
factor. Its junction with the sun wave occurs at 
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is four-fold, purified lower Manas being the new 
component. Its junction with the sun wave is 
lower still. The wave from Mars is five-fold, 
purified Kama being the new component. Its 
junction is below that of Saturn. The wave from 
the Violet planet is six-fold, the astral element of 
purified personal will being the new component. 
Its junction with the sun wave is the lowest yet. 
The wave from Neptune is eight-fold; from 
Uranus nine-fold, and from the outmost planet 
ten-fold. 

As stated in "Special Teachings from the Arcane 
Science," the eighth, ninth, and tenth planets are 
not in that system of evolution of which our earth 
is the base. Having as yet no planetary hier- 
archies, these slowly progressing planets are in the 
direct care of the great eighth, ninth, and tenth 
hierarchies of the Logos. The Buddhic Wave 
from each of these planets to Earth is really the 
over-plus of its sun wave; hence the importance 
of Neptune and Uranus as factors in the molding 
of human affairs. 

H. 



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THE FORTY-NINE FIRES 

IN the teaching, "The Buddhic Wave," we 
touched upon the warfare of the white and the 
dark powers of the invisible world. Also we 
stated that the weapons used were unlike those of 
earthly conflict. To understand the nature and 
effect of these weapons, we should discover the 
essential nature of desire, that principle which, like 
will and mind, is a component of an inseparable 
trinity on our planetary chain, and also on every 
other from that of Venus downward. 

Always in this trinity the middle principle of 
desire is a fiery one. Not so the other two; but, 
as in contact with fire, metal is heated, so will 
above and mind below become fiery. In that 
reflection of this positive trinity which forms the 
inverted or negative triad, Kama, or selfish desire, 
is the fire with Lower Manas above, and the astral 
personal will below; both fiery through contact. 

The basic physical principle is a fiery one through 
its union with Kama and the Astral. On each of 
the seven planes of our planetary chain are seven 
conditions of fire. These differing fires divide the 
total seven into forty-nine sub-planes or fires. Of 
the seven fires of the physical plane, Material 
Science recognizes only the one destructive to 
gross physical matter; still, as every physical being 
lives and moves in certain of the seven, it follows 

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that a fire to which that being is adapted is not by 
him recognized as fire, but rather as an agreeable 
and life-sustaining element. 

In the early planetary rounds, our race and the 
lower forms of life existed without inconvenience 
in that world-fire which, because long since largely 
outgrown by the changed and changing physical 
organisms of every species, is now destructive to 
them. Man still lives and has pleasure in certain 
aspects of physical fire which, before wholly out- 
grown, will to his backward look seem harmful. 
Moreover, perhaps to his physical body of the far 
future they will have become deadly as fire can 
well be. 

Certain aspects of astral and kamic fire are below 
normal man, but, at death, depraved men gravitate 
to these olden fires once comparatively pure and 
even agreeable to our entire humanity, though 
long since polluted by the presence of the outcasts 
of the race. To Swedenborg, these divisions of the 
astral plane were hells, the habitation of devils. 

The mind body of man has risen above certain 
fires of the lower manasic levels, but the fires of the 
Higher Manas are as yet unknown to the great 
majority. As for the buddhic fires, the source of 
all others, only a few advanced representatives of 
mankind are in other than their lower sub-divisions. 

During incarnation the human physical body 
holds the other six principles in touch with certain 
physical fires. During its posthumus cycle of 

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vitality, the astral body holds the other five in 
touch with certain astral fires. Next the kamic 
principle, during its cycle, holds all higher principles 
in touch with the kamic fires. Finally, the Higher 
Manas holds the two highest principles in touch 
with certain manasic fires. 

Because the four lower principles of man are at 
variance with the higher three, they would humble 
those three to their own level. Correspondingly 
the hosts of darkness would debase the hosts that 
stand as a wall around humanity; so they breach 
or undermine wherever possible. During the 
ordeal the great Niramanakayas, the tried and 
proven through ages of service, stand intact in 
their six-fold robes of purified principles down to 
and including the Astral. 

Among these great ones are certain who in 
historic times were vulnerable to attack; and even 
more there are who, in the Atlantean struggle, 
were badly worsted. Such being the case, what 
must be the partial weakness of thousands of the 
ordinary champions of Light? Concerning 
weapons that have wrought discomfort and defeat 
among the black and the white hosts, let it be said 
that they are certain of the forty and nine fires. 

Man's physical body can be tortured by ordinary 
fire because, having passed out of its old fiery con- 
dition, that body has not yet evolved to a state of 
immunity, of unawareness of the existence of 
ordinary fire as such. Certain astral and kamic 

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fires are harmful to the ordinary individual dis- 
embodied and on the astral and kamic planes. 
These fires he avoids, even as on earth he avoided 
physical fire: but, were he wholly purified in his 
astral and kamic bodies, such fires would to him 
be quite harmless. When purified in his manasic 
bodies, he cannot suffer from the grosser manasic 
fires. 

To the black brotherhood, the polluted and 
harmful kamic fires are natural and agreeable 
elements constituting effective weapons against 
certain of the white brotherhood. The high and 
pure fires of Manas and Buddhi are, in turn, tor- 
turous to the black since they are fallen beings 
once to some extent partakers of these fires, even 
as we now are through the higher triad of princi- 
ples. If to one evolving from a gross fire, it in 
time become harmful; so, to one fallen from a pure 
fire, that element will eventually be equally so. 

The wily black magician attempts not the 
conquest of the wholly purified white. On the 
contrary, he fears and flees from his buddhic fire. 
Those of the white who as yet have not wholly 
purified their astral and kamic bodies, are more or 
less vulnerable to the gross astral and kamic fires 
of the enemy; and always they shrink, and often 
they flee from the intolerable burning. Selfish 
pride, and lust of power and possession, are manasic 
fires somewhat less gross. When insinuated by 
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and life-giving even as on earth, but, to the some- 
what purified white, they are malodorous and 
stifling. 

In the warfare described, the weapon really 
effective is the pure, buddhic fire; that which adds 
to itself from the purified lower principles an 
indescribable luster and a determining energy. 
Having in superlative degree both that luster and 
energy, the great Captain of the white company is 
already wielding, as invincible weapon, that 
zodiacal fire the resplendent truth of Aquarius. 

H. 

SATAN 

SATAN, that black and hideous being, is not a 
product of our world, and to him neither 
human shape nor physical body were ever given. 
Coming to this earth from another, now in pralaya, 
he arrived as chief and almost sole survivor of his 
dark company; one since recruited from human 
kind. As an astral entity, he at once began to 
prey upon our earliest races. This from two 
causes, one easily seen, to wit, pure malignity; the 
other deeply occult, and requiring explanation. 
Debased Kama and selfish, obdurate personal will 
were his dominant principles, in fact his life as a 
self-conscious entity. Such gross principles are of 
course perishable, the higher triad — atrophied in 
him — being necessary to real immortality. 

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How to prolong his astral and kamic life was a 
problem solved in a way worthy of Satan's devilish 
cunning. He became a vampire feeding on what 
in man corresponds with his own perverted princi- 
ples. Henceforth he strove to reduce the human 
race to his own level. Imagine him desperately 
active in a cycle of mature world Karma, and we 
account for the horrors of the war now passed 
through. In a large view, our common enemy 
was unwittingly the instrument of Justice to every 
nation involved, all of whom were more or less 
guilty as history shows. The Pisces Avatar came 
at the time of a judgment more circumscribed. 
The fall of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the 
Jewish people, though momentous to themselves, 
were not then important events, however large 
appearing in subsequent history. 

Touching further upon the past and the present 
of humanity's old adversary, let it be said that 
while in former times his acts were inspired by fear 
and hatred, those of to-day are born of despera- 
tion, since for him the descent of the Major Avatar 
means greatly enfeebled powers during a thousand 
years; after which the force generated by the 
Avatar will subside gradually for another thousand 
years Of one fact we are assured, Satan cannot 
survive the rise of the sixth root race, because the 
principle of Buddhi, therein resident, will act as 
poison on his principles, unless he retire to some 
restricted department of the sub-astral plane. 

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Virtually this will be the chaining of Satan men- 
tioned in Revelation. Undoubtedly the inception 
of the sixth sub-race is a menace to his activity. 

The kamic principle of gross desire cannot 
endure contact with the buddhic principle of pure 
compassion: hence the coming of the Major Avatar 
arouses the ire of the entire dark host. Least of 
all this host, can the Prince of Darkness enter the 
presence of the Prince of Light. So Satan incites 
his company to aggression. Only with those of 
the human species who most resemble him, has he 
personal contact. War's unspeakable horrors in 
every age originated in his attempt to increase 
numerically the victims of his dreadful vampirism. 

As for Satan's followers, each according to his 
rank becomes an astral ghoul who imperils the 
reincarnation of his victims. This for two reasons : 
first, because these victims are drained of neces- 
sary vitality, and, second, because gradually they 
lose human shape and intelligence, thus becoming 
nondescripts, or, rather, reversions to, types now 
extinct on our globe. Nevertheless the good Law 
does not cut off such beings for, by a merciful pro- 
vision, they are to be transferred to a planet of as 
yet low development, though of lofty destiny. 
This planet is known to Astrologers as the higher 
Venus, and as such to Initiates, because with 
almost Divine Wisdom it rescues, and sets securely 
on a low rung of the long ladder of life, those whom 
other evolutions have failed to reclaim. 

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Since the dawn of the twentieth century, the 
world more and more has been in that wave of 
spiritual energy which precedes the re-embodi- 
ment of the Aquarian Avatar. As the result of 
this influx, the virtuous are increasingly incited 
to virtue, while the wickedness of multitudes is 
reaching that culmination which means their dis- 
appearance from our evolution. The beneficial 
effects of this general weeding out will be realized 
in succeeding centuries. On the other hand, the 
buddhic wave is energizing great multitudes to 
noble deeds of self-sacrifice. 

H. 



THE SECRET ORANGE PLANET 

MANY critics of Occult Science imagine that, 
whereas, by slow and laborious inquiry, 
Physical Science has accumulated a mountain of 
proveable fact, the other, because jumping at 
conclusions, gives out as truth a jumble of absurd 
theories which, if tested by the methods of Physical 
Science, would be wholly discredited. 

Speaking for Occult Science, we repeat what 
often has been said to wit: painstaking research 
was its invariable procedure ages before Physical 
Science began initial, crude investigation. Organic 
and inorganic Chemistry, those branches of 
Material Science to which the modern world is 

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greatly indebted, had origin in the experiments of 
the old Alchemists who were themselves stimu- 
lated often to feverish activity by certain mis- 
understood half truths gleaned from the ancient 
Arcanum of the Initiates. With this much as 
preliminary, let us proceed to the exposition of 
further occult truth. 

That in its early rounds our Earth was a fiery 
globe is an ancient teaching quite in accord with 
the finding of modern Material Science: but, in 
the further statement that in its culminating 
round this Earth returns to the fiery state, the old 
science abruptly parts company with the new. 

From a previous teaching was gathered some- 
what concerning the forty-nine fires, seven of 
which are proper to the physical plane. Aided by 
this knowledge, we shall now unveil the truth 
beneath the exoteric statement that in its latest 
round our Earth is again a fiery globe. 

Though now a dead world, the physical Moon 
in its early rounds was fiery through contact with 
the fire of the predominating astral principle of the 
moon chain. During ages of evolution, this astral 
principle was dividing gradually first into the pure 
and enduring astral fire of what would become the 
secret violet planet and, second, into the gross and 
perishable astral fire which finally united with the 
dying physical Moon. The purified astral fire of 
the seventh lunar round greatly differed from the 
original astral fire, and vastly more so from the 

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astral residuum now in pralaya. No separation 
of fires took place on the physical plane, since the 
evolution of the moon chain was based on the 
astral. 

In passing let it be said that, because more 
ethereal than the purified astral of our planet, that 
of the moon evolution is visible only from the 
highest level of our astral world and, even there, 
only masters and advanced chelas can see what 
therefore is denominated the secret, violet planet. 

As the evolution of our chain is based on the 
physical, it follows that physical fire is much 
nearer to our humanity than ever it was to the lunar 
fathers. It follows further that the basic separa- 
tion of fires, to be consummated in our seventh 
round, occurs on the physical plane. That part 
of our physical globe which, since the early rounds, 
has cooled and solidified, is largely residuum from 
which, in the seventh round, all life-sustaining 
power shall have departed. What then will be 
the condition of seventh round humanity, and that 
of the physical sub-planes proper thereto? 

The teaching is that while five of the seven sub- 
planes or fires of the physical globe cannot be 
assimilated, the two upper divisions will be purified 
into a resplendent globe, self-luminous by means 
of the planetary fires from that of Buddhi down- 
ward. The physical bodies of seventh round 
humanity will glow like the earth itself with living 
fire which to our senses would not now be recog- 

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nized as such. This fire is a union of the seven 
pure spectrum colors, with the orange predomi- 
nating. 

Thus we interpret the Arcane Teaching which 
furthermore states that our planetary fire will 
culminate in a seven-fold glory outvieing the six- 
fold brilliancy of the violet planet, the future five- 
fold beauty of Mars, the future four-fold of Saturn, 
the future three-fold of Venus, the future dual of 
Mercury, and the future single atmic glory of 
Jupiter. 

As for the after condition of our planetary chain, 
we have used the history of the Moon Chain as 
illustration. The time is coming when a secret 
orange planet will be added to the number already 
in the minor subdivisions of the Logos. 

H. 



THE LIFE VEHICLES 

A FAMILIAR occult teaching is that during 
4*" its entire life period, every globe chain in 
our solar system experiences seven incarnations, 
each a Manvantara, or man-perfecting epoch. 
Our earth chain is now in the fourth of its seven. 
Previous Earth Manvantaras perfected for their 
humanities permanent robal coverings of but the 
seventh or highest division of physical body sub- 
stance. The present Manvantara will perfect for 

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its humanity a permanent physical robe of a 
portion of the sixth division. 

The fifth Manvantara is to perfect for its 
humanity a physical vehicle of the sixth and 
seventh divisions entire. Succeeding Manvan- 
taras will only refine for their humanities these 
two divisions. The next lower division of physical 
body substance is to be perfected on the eighth 
planetary chain, the destined place of the eight- 
principled animal evolution, and also the place of 
regeneration and rise of all human failures rejected 
during this Manvantara of our planetary chain. 

Analysis of the quality of the life vehicles on any 
planetary chain reveals to a nicety the status and 
ultimate condition of their owners. Into the 
exposition of this arcane teaching let us to some 
extent enter. 

In Vol. 1 of this series, "Special Teachings from 
the Arcane Science," and in the chapter, "The 
Planetary Process," it was found that the simple 
one-principled atmic lives emanated to the Jupiter 
chain were of seven degrees of fineness; also that 
eventually the coarser and coarser atmic lives 
dropped to their proper globe conditions in the 
chain, and therefrom were carried by lower and 
lower life-waves until Atma became the highest 
principle on every lower globe chain. What was 
true of Atma was correspondingly so of successively 
denser principles, until each chain became the 
home of its appropriate principle, 

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The wave of physical life which swept through 
the physical globes of every chain down to this, 
sowed no seeds of normal physical life before 
reaching our world. The seeds deposited here 
were of seven kinds; and in kind the fruits thereof 
are unchangeable forever, The physical body of 
man was the highest fruit; one not to be con- 
founded with the animal; hence while the eating 
of animal flesh is of common occurrence, canni- 
balism to all but the most degraded savage is a 
loathsome crime. 

During the first human root race of every round 
of our globe chain, the physical vesture of every 
creature whatsoever is, in composition, nearly 
identical with that of the first round; but, until 
the middle of each round beginning with the 
second, and especially until the middle of the 
fourth round — that which corresponds with the 
kama-manasic principle — every living creature adds 
to its physical vesture grosser and grosser atoms 
then to be discarded gradually until the previous 
minimum is reached. 

As the physical vehicle of man incorporates the 
highest grade of its appropriate substance, where- 
as that of the animal kingdom incorporates the 
grade below, so is it with the human astral and 
every higher human body; and so is it with the 
corresponding animal bodies. Between the normal 
human kind, and the animal, there is an abnormal 
kind whose tendency, while never upward, is in 

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extreme cases toward the brute level. This variety 
is that of derelicts and outcasts, the unelect of the 
Pauline doctrine which its initiate author could 
not unveil to the Piscean age. As revealed on our 
planet, the Christos reaches not down to this class 
who, by the Divine Wisdom and Mercy, are there- 
fore transferred to a planet wherein a more funda- 
mental exposition of the Christos will lay hold of 
and lift them to their place in the Cosmic Scheme. 
That the luna pitris, incarnating as human in 
the early rounds of our globe, were of the Moon's 
animal evolution is but an exoteric statement 
veiling the truth that these were failures represent- 
ing an intermediate principle analogous to the one 
above mentioned; in fact they were impervious to 
refining Truth as revealed to the moon humanity. 
In this lower planet, after temporary failure, they 
would rise to their peculiar destiny. This fact is 
beneath the ancient and deeply occult doctrine of 
that original sin which exoteric Jewish theology 
laid upon Adam. 

H. 

THE ORIGIN AND MANIFESTATION OF MIND 

MATERIAL Science fails to explain the fact 
that the functions which it labels "instinct " 
appear in the very young animal, whereas the 
human infant is born mentally a helpless creature 
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gift supposedly God-bequeathed only to the 
human species. 

The notion that mind is the possession of man 
alone, originated in the dogma that the gift of 
immortality, or even the possibility of attaining 
it, is the peculiar birthright of the one genus 
endowed with mind. It is repugnant to the idea 
of Divine Justice, that any being capable of 
thought, however circumscribed, should be doomed 
to utter extinction through death of the physical; 
so, in lieu of mind, mere "instinct" — whatever 
that may be — was allowed to the brute kingdom. 

Our philosophy teaches that Mind, as one 
aspect of that all-pervading Trinity, — Will, 
Desire, Thought, sleeps in the mineral, wakes in 
the plant, becomes more or less active in the 
animal, and fully alert in man, the crown and 
culmination of Nature's efforts. During the long 
and slow ascent from the lower kingdoms to 
civilized beings, indwelling mind is ever striving 
to individualize itself, and take the shape of the 
physical body. In the humbler species the result 
is a most rudimentary mind body; one dissipated 
at death, or soon after; but as for the higher 
animals, especially the domesticated horse, cow, 
elephant, dog, and certain others; these, through 
association with man, and because of their efforts 
to understand his wishes and commands, have 
developed mind bodies which, in certain instances, 
will persist, and even re-incarnate in a way analo- 

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gous to the mind bodies of their higher brethren 
of the human race. 

The wide adaptability of mind to its environ- 
ment is not conceded by those who, naming a cer- 
tain aspect of it "instinct," marvel that, for 
instance, the young whale from the moment of 
birth can both swim, and feed from the teat of the 
mother; whereas the human infant would die 
were not its mouth guided to the nipple. In the 
human infant, hunger urges the principle of desire 
to immediate expression, but because the mind of 
the mother takes upon itself the duties proper to 
that of the infant, Nature has for ages accom- 
modated itself to this fact. No doubt many more 
ages would be necessary to bring the infant mind 
to that precocity which, from necessity, is usual in 
the lower species. 

To those of circumscribed vision, the fact that 
Nature is red in tooth and claw, seems an indict- 
ment of that Love which supposedly is sovereign 
over all our world. Throughout the animal king- 
dom, Nature is striving to the end that an individ- 
ualized and permanent mind body may be the 
property of its every entity. The sluggish minds 
of the lower orders must be roused by means 
necessarily harsh. Love of life, the fear of all that 
threatens it, the desire for food, and the consequent 
matching of cunning against cunning, are the only 
possible means by which the lower orders can be 
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they have thus far attained. So the cost of 
immortality is tremendous; but the result will be 
priceless. 

Long ago man passed through his fiery struggle 
for immortality, but more or less of the evil ten- 
dencies then engendered yet cling to him. Because 
of these evils, exoteric religions condemn certain 
of the human race to everlasting punishment; but 
these religions fail to see that the higher virtues 
are chiefly the evolution of their once necessary 
opposites. Thus, cunning like that of the fox 
becomes the craft of the savage, which in turn 
becomes the intelligence of the average civilized 
man, and finally this widens into the wisdom of the 
sage. Again, ferocity like that of the tigress 
defending her young, evolves to the love of the 
human mother for her child; and such love event- 
uates in that compassion for the entire human race 
which distinguished both Buddha and the Galilean 
Master. 

H. P. B. 



MEMORY 

MEMORY is that faculty of the mind by 
which it retains knowledge of association 
with persons, things, and events. While the 
apparent office of memory is universally familiar, 
it has an interior use which, though known to the 
few, is undreamed of by the many. In this brief 

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chapter let us throw upon that use a ray from the 
Secret Science. 

Because mind is an active principle, its expres- 
sion is always dynamic. If one holds in his mind's 
eye an absent friend or loved one, forthwith the 
effort causes a vibration in the mental substance 
of the seven-fold world. Then, guided by the 
higher mind of the transmitter, this vibration finds 
the mind of the remembered. Should that vibra- 
tion contact those peculiar to the physical brain 
mind of the receiver, in other words, his lower mind, 
it results that the finer mental vibrations, proper 
to the act of mental visualizing, are overpowered 
and even obliterated by the coarser ones of the 
material mind contacted. Should now the higher 
mind of the receiver at the time be in rapport with 
the corresponding mind of the sender, then a 
drawing near of these two minds will result. 

The human material body must of course wholly 
conform to the laws of time and of space obtaining 
on the material plane. Not so the mind bodies, 
especially the higher of the two linked with the 
material body. This higher is in its own definite 
aspect of time and space; and, if freed from physi- 
cal hinderings, it would obey only the law of the 
high mental plane. As it is, every human material 
body has more or less of a separative effect on its 
purely mental associate when the latter would 
come into conjunction with another of its kind. 

If a loved one has passed out of material con- 

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ditions, then but a single physical obstacle to 
conjunction of separated minds remains. Desire to 
visit the grave, or else some scene where, as earthly 
beings, friends or lovers have passed unforgettable 
hours, is an urge originating in the law on which 
we are touching. These places are potent aids to 
the yet-incarnated higher mind that would visualize 
most clearly the being now beyond the veil of the 
physical, and thus bring about the near approach 
of both higher minds, those which, in the course of 
nature, are destined to complete union. 

Because in the world, and environed by physical 
conditions, we can picture heaven and its inhabi- 
tants only by giving to them certain physical 
characteristics. By the same law, those who have 
passed from earth can hold in memory the world 
and its dwellers only by giving to them certain 
characteristics of the heavenly places and their 
peoples. 

As the discarnate higher mind rises to more and 
more appropriate planes of being, memory of the 
physical world and its contents — because increas- 
ingly influenced by environment — becomes more 
and more unlike the original. The belief that, in 
the last analysis, the physical world is mere delu- 
sion, no doubt originated with those who, in the 
profound trance known as samadhi, looked at or 
remembered it from the super-physical planes. 

The law which influences memory in the dis- 
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to idealize the physical earth and its inhabitants, 
is operative in an opposite way in those who, after 
death, have sunken to the lower divisions of the 
astral plane. Especially is that law active in 
those unfortunates who have gravitated to that 
lowest division of the astral known as the eighth 
sphere. 

As Swedenborg discovered, these remember and 
even see the sun itself as a black sphere. As for 
the physical earth, the distorted memory of these 
makes of it a vile abode of evil beings resembling 
themselves. Those who yet in physical life remem- 
ber this class with hatred in their hearts, are in 
danger of forming the very tie which of all possible 
ones they would abhor; for let it be emphasized 
that while love is the potent binder of hearts and 
destinies, hate is equally efficient in its own field 
of operations. 



TIME AND ETERNITY 

ETERNITY is the Past, the Present, and the 
Future, united in the Divine Mind; whereas 
that which encompasses these is the Divine Form. 
To be comprehensible to finite mind, Eternity 
and its Container manifest as innumerable spheres 
moving around other spheres, themselves in 
motion throughout the deeps of space. For every 
being in ascending scale, this symbol holds until 

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he enters Eternity there to unite with the all- 
inclusive One. 

Because a revolving sphere, this Earth is a 
manifestation of time to its dwellers, and because 
Time, moving in its orbit, carries with it the suc- 
cession of events, their re-incarnation so to speak, 
the human root races and sub-races — progressing 
through their cycles and minor cycles of timed 
events, — are, at the beginning of these periods, 
impelled to move over the Earth in great migra- 
tions which began with the polar races, and con- 
tinued throughout Lemurian, Atlantean, and his- 
toric times, and still continue, as witness the influx 
of world peoples to that amalgamation which in 
America, will result in a new sub-race. 

To primitive man the earth was flat; the all- 
important center around which swung the diminu- 
tive sun and moon, and the insignificant stars; 
heavenly lamps all of them, and lighted only for 
his convenience in day or night. In Atlantean 
times the Secret Science taught the world's rotun- 
dity, and its minor place in the universal scheme; 
but this knowledge was for the few, since the 
spherical earth, and its axial and orbital revolu- 
tions, were clews to certain cyclic operations of 
karmic Law. 

Through major and minor karmic cycles, all 
worlds and creatures approach Eternity, the Divine 
Vision. Enlarged cycles of sight will be successive 
until, at the last unveiling of minds and eyes, the 

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far off in time and space becomes the Eternal 
Now, and the Ever Present. 

In both the individual and collective building 
of the temple of Divine Truth, Karma urges to 
perfect work, since it reveals to man's spiritual 
understanding that what is builded for Time and 
Eternity must in every detail be flawless. The 
lower nature deems Karma a hard taskmaster, but 
the nobler part of man at times sees Karma as 
Divine Truth and Compassion; so the dictum of 
the higher nature rules in a way which the lower 
never realizes; therefore unconsciously this lower 
pays its debt to the Law as we shall see. 

Retiring from objective life, man the builder 
reaches higher and higher levels of discrimination 
in respect to Truth until, at the turning point of 
his subjective arc, a ray of light from the universal 
Atma informs his individual seventh principle; 
whereat he sees time as a spiral in which he must 
travel toward perfection. Then, though actuated 
by only a fraction of the Divine Thoroughness, he 
gladly descends to meet the requirements of 
karmic Law. Soon a workman on the physical 
plane, he will tear down and rebuild wherever 
necessary. In the successive clothings incident to 
rebirth, the lower nature, because taking to itself 
a new body and an unremembering brain, may 
rebel at Karma's decree; still the momentum 
established at the turning of man's cycle, must be 
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new inception at the beginning of the next cycle. 

Within the objective arc of every human life 
exist innumerable karmic time cycles which lift 
one into joy, or plunge him into sorrow, but, in the 
direst descent, there is no complusion for the 
higher nature because — as in the greater cycle — 
at the turning point of this small dark one the 
Divine Adjudicator of karmic Law informs the 
spiritual will of man which at once fulfills its office. 
Thereupon the lower principles, unconscious that 
they are willed so to do, proceed to self-punishment. 

The succession of births into the physical world, 
a succession uninterrupted for ages, may be likened 
to a mighty river ever flowing because of its 
innumerable tributaries. From the lake of Itasca 
to the Gulf of Mexico the Mississippi sweeps over 
a flat surface, but, for thirteen hundred miles in 
direct line from the river's source to its mouth, the 
curve of the globe is the arc of a circle, complete 
were the river's course uninterrupted. 

In respect to time, the human race moves in a 
great spiral of which the historic ages are an arc, 
though seemingly no curve is there. The plane- 
tary rounds — caused by the sun's revolution in its 
vast orbit — and that simultaneous great circling 
of time which really causes the world-pilgrimages 
of the root races, have their individual correspond- 
ent in the circling of man the unit through his time 
orbit. 

Evidently time is relative, and is determined 

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according to the needs of mankind, whether evolv- 
ing as root races, sub-races, or individuals. The 
determiner of time is the atmic principle of man, 
and the Atma of the globe by him inhabited. 
From the viewpoint of these Atmas, time is only 
opportunity perhaps profited by, but almost never 
wholly so; therefore must man be born again into 
time until every opportunity has been made the 
most of. 

At the close of Earth's seventh round, a separa- 
tion of its principles occurs: then the higher, to a 
great extent purified, but not wholly so, retire to 
their place as a transparent, luminous and secret 
planet, while the old body of Earth swims in space 
a planet in pralaya like the Moon above us. After 
ages of involution comparable to that of the 
human soul in Devachan, the secret planet reaches 
the limit where its atmic principle, enlightened by 
the Solar Atma, beholds Time as a spiral. There- 
fore the planet gravitates downward to unite with 
its old body, and, for the world, time and oppor- 
tunity begin anew; not on the former level how- 
ever, because the lowest arc of the karmic time 
spiral will indicate the place attained in this our 
present manvantara. 

Although Earth's annual revolution is explained 
by Material Science, and to the satisfaction of its 
votaries, Occult Science, that seeker for hidden 
causes, finds that, at the turning of the orbit on 
December 22nd, the earth's Atma receives an 

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impulse from the Atma of the Sun then in Capri- 
cornus. 

In passing let it be said that, as regent of the 
Zodiac, the Sun determines and maintains for 
every planet the time orbit necessary to its peculiar 
development. Losing its planetary time orbit, the 
dead moon received from the astral personal will 
principle of the earth an imposed time orbit; one 
not without purpose, but that is another matter. 
In respect to axial revolution, the earth is impelled 
and maintained by forces somewhat analogous to 
those causing orbital motion. The inner impulses 
affecting the earth are slight indeed, but sufficient 
for the minute time cycles indicated by axial 
revolution. 

As before said, our earth is time to its dwellers; 
hence its yearly and daily turnings have fostered 
in mankind the illusion of past, present, and 
future. This illusion is far preferable to that 
of the mindless polar first race who, in the light of 
the never s nking polar sun, lived in one dimen- 
sional time, the present. 

Year by year the earth arrives at those higher 
and higher positions in the great time spiral which 
usher in the sub-races, and the root races of a 
planetary round. This fact wonderfully strength- 
ens the hope in the human breast which makes 
to-morrow better than to-day, and the years to 
come brighter than those behind. Therefore, 
ignoring whatever of glamor legend has cast over 

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the long ago, we picture the golden age of the race 
in the world's large and brilliant future. 

Viewed from differing angles the Atma of the 
sun is Time, Karma, Truth, Spiritual Will, and 
also Christos, in short the Manifested Word, to the 
worlds in his keeping. In a secondary way the 
earth's Atma is all these to its dwellers, and, in an 
individual way, the corresponding Atma of man 
is therefore ruler and finally perfector of his being. 
In every instance Atma is the Auric Egg of Akasha 
enveloping and permeating the lower principles. 

M. 

THE SECRET OF KARMA 

IF the preceding chapter makes plain the aspects 
under which Atma is active, both in the 
Microcosm and the Macrocosm, we are now pre- 
pared for a deeper than surface view of karmic 
Law as operative in individual and collective man, 
as well as in the world itself. Sure that our dis- 
coveries will be of universal application, let us 
begin with man. 

Completing the subjective arc of his incarnation 
orbit, man, now represented by the ego — Atma, 
Buddhi, Manas — has reached, almost always 
unconsciously, the atmic turning point. There 
his individual Atma, informed by the solar Atma — 
the Lords of Karma — constructs for the next incar- 
nation an ideal cycle; not of time as we understand 

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it, but of happenings. In constructing this cycle, 
Atma is Truth and Justice, since in the cycle 
every happening is the truth of a former happening 
in that the deeds once done to others, and so 
really done to oneself, are to react for weal or woe 
on the doer. In the ordering of this cycle, Atma 
is Spiritual Will, and in the carrying out it is Karma. 

Because of its conjunction with Buddhi and 
Manas, Atma is the Christos in man, his individual 
Word which recognizes in the astral personal will, 
conjoined with Kama and Kama Manas, a reflec- 
tion of itself, a negative expression of the Word. 
If the karmic cycle, constructed by Atma for the 
new birth, were full and complete, then earthly 
man would be fore-ordained, a mere automaton, a 
creature of fate, wherefore the real purpose of 
Karma would prove abortive. Evidently the 
lower will must be allowed to insert in the karmic 
cycle many happenings of its own choosing. 

Mark well that the karmic cycle is not in time as 
by us understood; it is but a succession of events 
whose order cannot be transposed, although 
between many of these events others may be 
inserted by the untrammelled lower will. The 
Spiritual Will would unite this lower with itself, 
but its only method is the karmic procedure; that 
ordained by Divine Wisdom. Throughout material 
life, man's Spiritual Will presides over things 
inevitable; in this it is Karma. Wheresoever 
there is volition, personal will is the final factor; 

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hence, if a voluntary deed be noble and self- 
sacrificing, the progress of personal will is thereby 
revealed. 

At this juncture two questions are suggested. 
First: is man's physical death always indicated in 
the original cycle, and consequently fore -ordained? 
Answer: It is indicated and fore-ordained only 
when, in constructing the original imperative 
series, the individual Atma — because enlightened 
from on high — must needs insert a premature or 
otherwise unnatural death. Second: what results 
from this death? Answer: Then, whether short 
or long, the cycle purposely ended leaves many 
debts to be equalized in another birth. Gradually 
the karmic cycle has been forced to include deeds 
done in several births, but now wisely arranged to 
the best results. If no such fatality is in the 
original cycle, then, barring reckless disregard of 
physical law, physical life usually continues until 
the will to live is exhausted, a natural occurrence 
at this world-stage of human evolution. 

Our first questions answered, a second grows out 
of them. Is the act of self-destruction in the 
order of predestined events, or is it wholly voli- 
tional? We reply that it may be a karmic adjust- 
ment of a debt incurred long ago, and so included 
in the original series, or it may be sourced some- 
where in the present life, or it may originate in a 
sudden impulse of the personal will, thus, in the 
last two instances, engendering Karma for a future 

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birth. Only a master of wisdom who has largely 
united his lower and higher will, and so gained 
atmic sight, can determine in every instance. 

Out of this explanation grows a third question. 
Is not present retribution and reward often the 
outcome of deeds done in the present life, and, if 
so, how shall our exposition of karmic procedure 
be enlarged to cover the facts? 

In reply: Atma is unceasingly active. Were 
its karmic activity confined to a carrying out of 
the fore -ordained, then the free deeds of this present 
life would not be recompensed therein; so to the 
vast majority of men Divine Justice would be non- 
existent. In its aspect as Karma, Atma rightfully 
dispenses justice, and incessantly and promptly 
for evil deeds were it not for the individual Buddhi, 
a principle wise with the wisdom of compassion. 

From the viewpoint of Buddhi, such unfailingly 
prompt recompense would control man through 
compulsion, fear of the law; and is it not evident 
that unfailingly prompt recompense of good 
would make reward the chief incentive to virtue? 
In regard to evil: from the viewpoint of the 
individual Atma the individual Buddhi is too 
lenient; so the harmonious outcome of these 
differing views is compromise; not in respect to 
the fore-ordained of higher powers, but in respect 
to the time of reckoning for the evil, and the 
reward of the good deeds of the present life. 

In many instances Atma defers karmic action 

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that Buddhi, in its aspect as conscience, may 
admonish the evil doer, and possibly rescue him 
from greater degradation. This adjustment of the 
atmic and the buddhic methods is approved by 
the higher Manas in its moments of purest insight. 
To maintain equilibrium, both in man and the 
world, the close connection of action and reaction 
is often imperative; hence no intervention of 
Buddhi occurs. In these cases the sequence of 
action and reaction is obvious to the simplest 
understanding, and is taken for granted by all. 

In a way far larger than above described, the 
holding back of Karma is possible. The individual 
Atma has larger and larger correspondents in the 
collective sub-race and root race Atmas, and that 
of humanity entire. Karma, operative on man- 
kind in groups, originates in the solar Atma, and 
acts through the group Atma. Buddhi, operative 
on mankind in groups, originates in the solar 
Buddhi, and acts chiefly through the group Buddhi 
of the dedicated few who, renouncing the heavenly 
rest, have vowed service to all mankind during 
this planetary round and those to succeed. 

Always the most saintly believers in the one life 
theory look for earlly termination of their good 
labors in this lower vineyard; whereas those who 
have vowed unending service have registered 
indelibly, on the Akasha of their individual Atma- 
Buddhi, the noble truth that they have become 
sponsors for humanity through the ages. Racial 

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and world Karma are of slow accumulation; con- 
sequently only these continual workers can offer 
adequate reason why mature Karma should be 
dispensed as a rivulet, rather than as a roaring, 
whelming flood. 

Stripped of esoteric dress, the story of Sodom is 
deeply occult. There the Lord represents mature 
group Karma, while Lot is a dedicated soul; 
though by himself unequal to the task of redeeming 
his city. Karma is to be withheld provided a 
minimum of ten dedicated ones will join with Lot. 
These not appearing, the atmic standard of Justice 
prevails, and destruction overtakes Sodom. 

With the beginning of this century, a karmic 
world-cycle of fore-ordained happenings was inau- 
gurated. Among the inevitables of that cycle is 
the world war embodying the delayed Karma of 
centuries. True, the Napoleonic wars somewhat 
reduced the volume of overdue Karma, but the 
lamentable fact is patent that the band of eternally 
dedicated helpers of humanity is insufficient for the 
task of bringing the average of the race to the 
standard which warrants the further delaying of 
much overdue world Karma. 

One object of the Theosophical movement, in 
fact its most vital object, is to arouse certain 
advanced souls, the world over, to the needs of the 
White Lodge. The Buddhic group has indeed 
been increased through such knowledge of Karma 
and rebirth as our co-worker H. P. B. brought to 

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the western world; but, as offset, due to the schem- 
ing of our age long enemies, mutual jealousies and 
consequent disruption inimical to the buddhic 
grouping have appeared in quarters where least 
they should be. 

Fortunately for our cause — that of our god- 
children everywhere — the cycle of perfected hap- 
penings contains the Avatar, a being of free and 
dedicated will, our visible head and mouthpiece 
in the wide arena of human events. That through 
his buddhic presence, and his present day message 
to prepared peoples, the buddhic group shall be 
vastly increased, there are internal evidences 
obvious to those who can read. Unfortunately 
such readers exist among the dark hosts now 
aroused to frenzied opposition. Many of these 
have vowed eternal hostility to the good; which 
vow is registered not in the indestructible Akasha, 
but in its opposite, the deteriorating astral and 
kamic principles of their lower natures. 

M. 



THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW 

IN "Arcane Science," page 93, also in "The 
Heart of Things," in the chapter "Jehovah," 
it was explained that the "God of Nations" was 
united to the Jews through the ray proper to the 
astral principle of personal will, in fact their violet 

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racial ray, and that of Jehovah himself as the 
summit of the astral, lunar evolution. 

Though in many ways no better than others, 
the Isrealites were fortunate in that the ray tie 
between Abraham their father and Jehovah, then 
regent of this planet, had resulted in a posterity 
peculiarly favored, because in a peculiar way the 
children of Jehovah. That this favoring was not 
mere partiality we may be sure. 

That the Hebrew prophets and inspired singers 
have much vitiated their message with the prej- 
udices and arbitrary ideas of justice inseparable 
from their time and their evolution in their racial 
ray, the Old Testament everywhere shows, as 
witness the following taken at random: "I the 
Lord am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the 
fathers upon the children." "God is jealous, and 
the Lord revenge th; the Lord revenge th and is 
furious." Often a more temperate tone is heard 
in such sayings as "The Lord of hosts shall be 
exalted in judgment." " For a small moment have 
I forsaken thee, but with great mercy will I gather 
thee." "The Lord is slow to anger and great in 
power." 

In the light just thrown upon the procedure of 
Karma, it is evident that the Hebrew writers con- 
founded atmic judgment with wrath and revenge. 
In the milder passages above quoted, Mercy — 
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tion of atmic justice, but against supposed anger, 
that mere human frailty. 

To form adequate estimate of Jehovah, whom 
his prophets have invested with contradictory 
human emotions, we must consider that He repre- 
sents personal will purified and merged in Divine 
Will. This union results in a two-foldness foreign 
to single Divine Will. Jehovah is Karma, not 
from the atmic, but in fact from the astral -atmic 
stand. In the prophets we see no purely imper- 
sonal administration of Law, but everywhere a 
personal note of authority. The difficulty of 
interpreting the mandates of such a God and in 
such a time inevitably led the Hebrew mouth- 
pieces of Jehovah to exaggeration of his personal 
Will aspect. 

That His name might be known upon the earth, 
and His law promulgated, Jehovah — the earth's 
sole regent — set apart or chose, through Abraham, 
about two- twelfths of the people of the violet ray, 
in fact those saved from the Atlantean doom 
anciently meted to the practicers of infernal arts. 

In the appointed time these chosen people were 
fortunate in opportunity when earth's rightful 
sovereign appeared among them to perfect his 
astral and kamic principles, also a certain sub- 
stratum of the physical, preparatory to assuming 
kingship. That this event was the turning point 
in human history, a certain secret instruction 
shows. 

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As received from those celestial teachers the 
Higher Kumaras, this instruction declares that 
while this earth chain is now in its fourth manvan- 
tara, the moon chain has finished its fourth. 
During the first two moon manvantaras, the great 
sixth or light blue hierarchy of the Solar Logos 
guided the destinies of the simple moon humanity. 
During the third moon manvantara, Jehovah the 
moon sovereign was perfected and assumed author- 
ity. During the first three earth manvantaras, the 
great seventh or orange hierarchy of the Solar 
Logos ruled our planet, but, at the beginning of 
the present manvantara, the lunar sovereign began 
his regentship which terminated at the cruci- 
fixion on Calvary. 

Because for a great purpose the Jewish race ray 
was kept pure through isolation of its children, it 
followed that the Jews looked askance at the 
children of the Orange, the Red, and the Green, 
those heathen worshippers of false gods epitomiz- 
ing their own human limitations; and it also fol- 
lowed that when the greatest of the prophets 
appeared as representative of a ray not Jewish, 
and therefore as exponent of another system, he 
was rejected, and finally killed. In this there is 
much to mitigate the otherwise intolerable karmic 
debt of the Jews now almost paid; wherefore the 
cycle of necessity, newly inaugurated, holds for 
them a high place among the nations. 

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mystery touching the real status of that great one 
Jesus the Christ, who, in an earlier instruction of 
this series, was called the Master of the Yellow 
Ray, and again the Master of all rays. 

Every planetary ruler takes name and authority 
from the dominating ray of his planet. For this 
earth that ray is the basic Orange. As H. P. B. 
once said, "there is no hard and fast scale, no fixed 
order of the human and the planetary principles." 
Thus for the moon chain, and its sovereign, the 
perfected Astral was supreme over the other five 
principles. For the Martian chain, and its sover- 
eign, perfected Kama is supreme over the other 
four. For Saturn, and its sovereign, purified 
Kama-Manas is supreme over the other three. 
Through the carrying out of this law, will eventually 
result the equalizing of all human and all planetary 
principles, from so-called highest to so-called lowest. 
Such equalization long since obtained in the Solar 
Hierarchies. 

For this world and its ruler, all principles or rays 
are tinted by the dominating Orange. For Mars 
and its ruler, the dominating Red performs like 
office. For Saturn and its ruler, it is the Green, 
and so on. Evidently Truth has a planetary 
aspect impossible to surmount until the solar view 
is arrived at; so, however much the buddhic ray 
and view may appeal to our planetary ruler, the 
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greater ; hence the perfecting of the Orange physical 
vesture will ever engage his chief efforts. 

In the esoteric classification of the human, 
planetary, and universal Tatwas or forces, or rays, 
Adi Tatwa is given as the highest. We will now 
mention a human and planetary Tatwa which 
from our planetary viewpoint is supreme; one 
whose positive pole is in the great seventh or 
Orange Hierarchy of the Solar Logos. In man 
this Tatwa originates those refinable divisions of 
physical body matter from which the great Master 
of physical life perfected, as his chief possession, 
that physical vehicle in which he ascended on high , 
or, more correctly, departed to his sacred and 
secret place. 

Concerning that place, a most arcane truth can 
now be revealed. Every Tatwa is divisible into 
seven, and while exoterically Prithivi is the lowest 
of the seven Tatwas, its highest division contains 
a secret Tatwa which, for this earth, is the supreme 
one. 

Since every Tatwa creates both the human and 
the planetary plane corresponding with it, and 
since every division of a Tatwa creates both the 
human and the planetary sub-plane corresponding 
with it, evidently the sub-plane proper to the 
secret Tatwa is the appropriate abode of the 
Master of physical life. Moreover he, of all the 
human race, has a body fit for that sub-plane. 
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leaves behind his entire seven-fold physical body, 
and passes to some division of the astral plane. 

Evidently the Master of the Orange stands 
between the physical life and the posthumous life 
of his lesser brethren, and so reaches both up and 
down. Though near to his own in heaven, he is 
equally so to those on earth. This most precious 
and comforting truth could not be made clear 
without some knowledge of the seven-foldness 
both of man and the planet ; hence for the world at 
large this knowledge awaited the fullness of time 
now drawing near. 

Hoping to come after death into the visible 
presence of his Lord, the devout believer will find 
in this arcane teaching food for thought, and good 
reason for modifying his expectation. Neverthe- 
less, let him remember the saying of the initiate 
Apostle, "For since by man came death, by man 
came also the resurrection of the dead." Through 
repeated purifications, the Adamic body of this 
devout one shall become the purified and eternal 
body of the resurrection; in other words it shall 
become the body commonly possessed at the close 
of a certain great cycle fair in the future of this 
progressive world. 

Said the risen Christ to the company of the 
faithful, "Lo, I am with you even unto the end of 
the age," and have we not made clear the truth 
within his dark saying? Concerning the body in 
which the Lord proved himself to Thomas, there 

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is a mystery which may be touched upon. Evi- 
dently the permanent physical of the risen Lord 
would not show the stigmata; neither would it 
perform such a physical act as the eating described 
by Luke. Plainly, for the time being that per- 
manent body was by some means clothed with 
coarser particles. 

In ordinary materialization it is possible, under 
circumstances unusually favorable, to build upon 
the astral model a semi-solid but transient facsimile 
of the original ; one which persists only through the 
will of the entity plus the will of another, or, 
better, plus the combined wills of several, or, best, 
in conjunction with the wills of all present. As 
for the scriptural instances of Jesus' bodily appear- 
ing, the astral model was not the body clothed 
upon but, instead, the permanent physical already 
described. 

That after his resurrection the Master appeared 
first to the faithful, was in accord with the law to 
large extent governing that occurrence; a law 
which should obtain at the supreme event for 
which the world is preparing. To facilitate this 
event, a company of believers in its early taking 
place should exist as force centers in different 
sections of the globe, and especially in this western 
land. To be effective, these groups should under- 
stand the real nature of the Avatar; at least they 
should be wholly above ignorant fanaticism, and 
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Second Advent with the ending of things terrestrial. 

Concerning the body of the Avatar, its charac- 
teristics are derived from the masculine Manas 
and the feminine Buddhi. The risen Jesus 
appeared first to Mary Magdalene because she, of 
all his followers, best represented the purified 
feminine principle of Kama in conjunction with 
Buddhi. Since, in the risen body of our Lord, 
this purified dual principle somewhat dominated 
the duad of purified Kama-Manas in conjunction 
with higher Manas, the event was in accord with 
the inner laws of being, and could not have been 
otherwise. 

Here is a clew to the great materialization due 
at the end of this culminating age. Even as in 
the old historic time, so again may it be. If so, the 
Master shall first appear not to the chief leaders 
of spiritual progress, the men and women of spot- 
less life, the keepers of the law from their youth up, 
but to the feminine Kama-Buddhi purified in some 
humble and obscure disciple far from the highways 
of the world. 

H. 

POLARITY 

ON pages 201-2 of "The Heart of Things," it is 
in substance stated that the concentrated 
Spiritual Will or Atma of the Jovian beings allows 
them to penetrate knowingly only to the densest 
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evolution. Again on page 222 it is said that upon 
this earth, a planet of seven principles, human 
spiritual will is necessarily circumscribed both in 
knowledge and power until the lower principles of 
man, personal will especially, have been harmon- 
ized with it. In seeming contradiction to these 
statements the contents of those preceding chapters : 
"Time and Eternity" and "The Secret of Karma" 
reveal the operations of Spiritual Will on all planes 
of the world, and in every human principle. 

Supplementing the statements on pages 201-2 
of "The Heart of Things" let us say that while 
the Jovian humanity contacts and aids the spiritual 
will of every planet, and its every being in the 
septenary series, and even in the tenary scheme, 
the Mercurians contact and aid the buddhic prin- 
ciple in every lower planet, and its every devolving 
life. The Venusians contact and aid the manasic 
principle in every lower planet, and its progeny. 
The Saturnian humanity performs its peculiar 
office to the lower Manas of all in every humbler 
planet. 

The Martian humanity aids the kamic principle 
in every lower planet, and its every life. Also 
the lunar Hierarchy is an aid to every manifesta- 
tion of the personal will principle in all planets 
below. As for our Earth; already many among us 
recognize the brotherly tide binding man to the 
lower species; those which yet shall pass to their 
respective planets, there to form that connecting 

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link because of which our humanity can aid the 
basic physical evolution of Uranus, Neptune, and 
the planet beyond. Because of this universal 
contact and mutual aid, spiritual will becomes 
increasingly active on every plane throughout the 
solar system. 

Owing to the contact of Atma and Buddhi on 
Mercury, the duad there is wholly unified. So 
also is the trinity of Atma, Buddhi, Manas, on 
Venus. This trinity is conjoined in every other 
planet in the descending series, but always in a 
less and less perfect manner. 

In the four-fold Saturn evolution we discover 
the first pair of opposites existing among the 
principles which in the lower planets are increased 
to seven, and even to ten. Because of the nearly 
unified Saturnian trinity of Atma, Buddhi, Manas, 
and especially because of the affinity of Manas for 
lower Manas, its negative pole, the humanity of 
the green planet has developed intellectually; not 
however to the pure intelligence of the Venusian 
beings; but, as compensation, to a mental grasp 
of many matters quite outside the purview of their 
lofty brethren. 

In the five-fold Martian evolution we discover 
two pair of opposites to wit, higher and lower 
Manas, and Buddhi-Kama. Because of these 
polar opposites, the Martians have developed 
intellectually, but even more so in respect to the 
transforming of desire, their basic principle. While 

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not approaching the pure love proper to the 
Mercurians, these have as compensation that 
compassion which comes only through triumph 
over the passional nature. 

The finished six-fold Moon evolution gave to 
the lunar fathers three pairs of opposites to wit, 
higher and lower Manas, Buddhi-Kama, and 
spiritual and personal will. Because of the 
affinity of spiritual will for personal will, the basic 
principle of the lunar scheme, evolution in that 
scheme was wonderfully quickened, and so brought 
to consummation ages ago. The personal will of 
the perfected lunar Hierarchy is by no means the 
equal of Spiritual Will, but, as compensation, it 
reaches down and is capable in the very abysm of 
matter. Hence the lunar Jehovah is said to have 
created the world over which he in fact presided 
as regent until the rightful ruler came into his own. 

The humanity of this world has for principles 
three pairs of opposites like those of the lunar 
scheme, and, besides, a negative physical principle 
peculiar to this planet; a principle having its 
positive pole in the seventh Hierarchy of the 
Logos, those beings who well -high transcend 
human conception. Fortunately that Logos has 
given to us a way-shower, one who exemplified by 
his resurrection the possibilities latent in the 
human physical. 

The dominant principle of any planet is negative 
to the solar source of that principle, but positive 

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to its correspondent in every lower planet. Hence 
man's physical principle is positive to its corre- 
spondent in each of the three outer planets. A 
more material principle, peculiar to Neptune, is 
negative to its solar source, but positive to its 
correspondent on Uranus and the outmost planet. 
Again, a yet more material principle proper to 
Uranus is negative to its solar source, but positive 
only to its correspondent on the outmost planet. 
Finally, a material principle, the densest trans- 
mutable in the tenary system, is evolving on the 
outmost planet. While negative to the tenth 
solar Hierarchy, that principle is positive to its 
corresponding principle on the outmost planet of 
a solar system one degree below our own. See 
chapter: "The Chain of Suns," page 189 of "The 
Heart of Things." 

In the stupendous descent from the spiritual 
and positive pole of the universe to its material 
and negative opposite, man's position is indeed a 
humble one, but, as compensation, his environ- 
ment demands the expansion of faculties whose 
like is useless and so unknown in many abodes of 
loftier being. The human physical body neces- 
sarily is more complex than any other yet evolved 
in any other world ruled by our solar Logos. 
Moreover, the human physical brain will yet 
compass that amazing variety which thus far the 
manifested assumes only on this planet, and which 
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seemingly more gifted than man. Nor could it be 
otherwise in a universe expanded from the spiritual 
point to a material circle bounding more than ever 
the telescope can reveal. 

The manifested universe tends towards per- 
manence in all its parts; and while it is undeniable 
that the circumference of the Kosmic Circle shall 
be drawn toward the central point, it is not true 
that in to to that circumference shall disappear in 
the unknowable. One can conceive of a time 
when durability shall be stamped on the trans- 
formed negative pole of creation. But even in 
those remote aeons to be, a new negative pole may 
exist in what now is the unexplored abysm of space. 

M. 

THRONES 

OHOULD the average person think of God's 
^ Throne, at once his mind soars to the firma- 
mental regions, perhaps to a distant star or con- 
stellation, or, more likely, to a secret and universal 
Center invisible because of human limitations. 

Somewhere in those heights, popular imagina- 
tion has throned Jehovah King of kings and, upon 
his right hand, the Son manifest to Earth as the 
child of Mary, but to the heavens as the Only 
Begotten before all worlds. In that somewhat 
inferior place the left hand of the Father, sits the 
Holy Spirit the mysterious other in that all- 

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governing group the Triune God, the Three in One. 

Many passages of scripture lend themselves to 
this view, thus: "For unto us a child is born, unto 
us a son is given; and the government shall be 
upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called 
Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the ever- 
lasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Here the 
Son and the Father are interchangeable, or, more 
precisely, the essential unity of the Messiah and 
Jehovah is announced. With this unity our view- 
accords; in fact the Secret Science teaches the 
inner oneness of all beings. 

Saith the Psalmist: "The Lord said unto me, 
thou art my son: this day have I begotten thee." 
In Hebrews, Paul the Initiate says of Jesus the 
Christ: "Who being the brightness of his glory 
and the express image of his person, sat down on 
the right hand of Majesty on high." From this 
last the literalist gathers that but one throne exists, 
that of Jehovah: but, finding an inner interpreta- 
tion, the occultist knows that, while many spiritual 
thrones exist in many degrees of glory, interiorly 
they are unified. 

Concerning these thrones let us condense a 
teaching from the Secret Science. There are two 
orders of spiritual thrones, the solar and the plane- 
tary. The planetary thrones are seven, that of 
Jupiter being in position the loftiest. This is the 
throne of Spiritual Will, and from it the Spiritual 
Will principle of every other planet has inner 

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impulse. That its influence may best reach down- 
ward, this throne is in the lowest of the seven 
divisions of the Jovian Atma. Next in position is 
the throne of Mercury, the throne of Buddhi. It 
has place in the lowest of the seven divisions of 
Buddhi the dominating principle of the planet. 
The influence of this throne is over the buddhic 
principle of every lower planet. 

Next in position is the throne of Venus, that of 
Manas the dominant planetary principle. This 
throne has place in the lowest save one of the 
seven planetary divisions of Manas. That one is 
residuum for a future manvantara. The influence 
of the Venusian throne is over the Manas of every 
lower planet. The throne of Saturn is in the lowest 
division save two of its Kama-Manas. The 
excluded two divisions are to be residuum. The 
influence of the Saturnian throne is over the Kama- 
Manas of all lower planets. The throne of Mars 
is in the middle or fourth division of its dominant 
Kama. The excluded three divisions are to be 
residuum. The influence of the Martian throne 
is over the Kama of all lower planets. 

The lunar throne, that of Jehovah, is in the 
secret lunar Sphere, and in that division of the 
Astral which, in its ancient septenary, was fifth in 
the ascending series. The lower four of the old 
seven are now in pralaya with the Moon's physical 
shell. Theoretically the influence of this throne 
is over the Astral of our lower planet but, during 

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the regentship of Jehovah, it undertook in this 
world a far broader scope. The throne of Earth, 
that of the great Master of physical life, is in the 
highest division save one of the seven-fold physical. 
In after ages its influence will extend to the eighth 
planet. Concerning the three planets included in 
the tenary scheme, their thrones are not yet 
established. 

The solar thrones are ten in number; the lowest 
in order being that of the violet Astral Hierarchy 
of Personal Will whose polar opposite — as explained 
on page 11, Arcane Science — is the Jupiter throne 
of Spiritual Will. This solar throne is in the fifth, 
ascending the septenary division of the solar 
Astral. It influences directly both the Jupiter 
Spiritual Will, and the Personal Will of the Lunar 
Sphere. Next in the order of solar thrones is that 
of the red Kamic Hierarchy whose polar opposite 
is the Mercurian throne of Buddhi. This solar 
throne is in the fourth, ascending the septenary 
division of the solar Kama. It influences directly 
both the Mercurian Buddhi, and the Martian 
Kama. 

Next in the order of solar thrones is that of the 
green Kama-Manasic Hierarchy whose polar 
opposite is the Venusian throne of Manas. This 
solar throne is in the third, ascending the septenary 
division of the solar Kama Manas. It influences 
directly both the Manas of Venus, and the Kama- 
Manas of Saturn. Next in the order of solar 

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thrones is that of the indigo Manasic Hierarchy 
whose polar opposite is the Saturnian throne of 
Kama-Manas. This solar throne is in the second, 
ascending the septenary division of the solar 
Manas. It influences directly both the Kama- 
Manas of Saturn, and the Manas of Venus. Next 
in the order of solar thrones is that of the yellow 
Buddhic Hierarchy whose polar opposite is the 
Martian throne of Kama. This solar throne is in 
the basic division of the septenary of solar Buddhi. 
It influences directly both the Kama of Mars, and 
the Buddhi of Mercury. Next in the order of 
solar thrones is that of the light blue Atmic Hier- 
archy whose polar opposite is the throne of Jehovah 
in the secret Lunar Sphere. This solar throne is 
in the basic division of the seven-fold solar Atma. 
It influences directly both the astral of the secret 
Lunar Sphere, and the Jovian Atma. 

Next in the order of solar thrones is that of the 
orange, refined physical Hierarchy whose polar 
opposite is the throne of Messiah, that of this 
Earth. This solar throne is high in the seventh 
sub-division of the seventh, ascending the sep- 
tenary of the solar Physical. It influences directly 
the physical of this planet. It is the throne of 
Majesty indicated by Paul as already quoted. It 
is the throne of the Father to whom Jesus ever 
looked for strength and guidance, and without 
Whom he could do nothing. The Initiate Apostle 
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Father, and evidently his seat "at the right hand" 
is a throne of great prominence. 

Next in the order of solar thrones is that of the 
higher orange, eighth Physical Hierarchy. It has 
middle place in the seventh sub-division of the 
seventh, ascending the septenary of the solar 
Physical. It influences directly the physical of 
the planet Neptune. Next in the order of solar 
thrones is that of the highest orange, ninth Physical 
Hierarchy. It is placed lower in the seventh sub- 
division of the seventh, ascending the septenary of 
the solar Physical. It influences directly the 
physical of the planet Uranus. Next in the order 
of solar thrones is that of the beyond orange, tenth 
Physical Hierarchy. It has basic place in the 
seventh sub-division of the seventh, ascending the 
septenary of the solar Physical. It influences 
directly the physical of the tenth planet. 

Ignoring precedent we have placed the three 
great culminating solar Hierarchies and thrones 
above the Atma of the septenary division. Our 
reason is a deeply occult one to be explained in the 
next chapter. 

We saw that the six planets, from Jupiter to the 
Lunar Sphere inclusive, each receives the direct 
influence of but two solar thrones. Also we saw 
that the Earth, and the three planets of the tenary 
scheme, each receives the direct influence of but 
one solar throne. From this it should not be 
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influences from certain solar thrones; neither 
should it be inferred that direct solar influence is 
due to partiality. Direct and indirect thronal 
influences are in harmony with certain laws of 
cosmic affinity which are basic indeed, and will 
not be touched upon at this stage of our teachings. 

These thronal influences operate through the 
solar rays which, let it be said, are only the vehicles 
of thronal influence. 

The orange physical ray proper to the seventh 
hierarchy, carries physical light, and indirect physi- 
cal thronal influence, to the other planets in the 
septenary series, but direct thronal influence to 
this planet only. This orange hierarchial ray 
should not be confounded with the orange of the 
spectrum, for in fact it is the synthesis of the 
seven hierarchial colors. In this arc of our planet- 
ary round, and because of our deep immersion in 
matter, this hierarchial orange is invisible. The 
grosser white alone appeals to physical vision. 

In the Secret Science the true color peculiar to 
the physical sun corresponds with gold, and pro- 
ceeds from the photosphere shorn of that gross 
and intense physical fire which results in the white. 
The hierarchial orange mentioned was a charac- 
teristic color of self-luminous Earth in her first 
round, and will be that of her self-luminous seventh 
round. Also, that orange was the color peculiar 
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planetary round, and is the color of the undying 
seventh root race to be. 

As vehicle of the six other solar rays, the hier- 
archial orange carries the hierarchial astral ray, 
and its indirect thronal influence, to this Earth, 
and its direct thronal influence to the violet planet. 
This scheme the student should apply to the other 
planets of the septenary series. The rays from the 
eighth, ninth, and tenth hierarchies, carry to their 
respective planets the indirect thronal influence of 
all other solar hierarchies. H. 

THE BASIC PHYSICAL 

WHEN certain teachers of the Ancient Wis- 
dom gave to the outer world the esoteric 
classification and scale of the human and the 
planetary principles, they gave their order and 
importance as obtaining at this stage of the uni- 
versal scheme of development; an order and 
importance beginning with Atma, and ending 
with the basic physical. 

From these teachings, then much veiled, it was 
inferred that ultimately the six lower principles 
would be drawn into the primal Atma; the result 
being infinite variety in Unity. This inference 
overlooked or ignored the fact that infinite variety 
demands degrees of density below the incon- 
ceivably tenuous Atma. 

H. P. B. more than once denied the fixed superi- 

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ority of any principle over another, and her con- 
tention was logical since no final and true Unity 
can consist of unequals. Somehow the naturally 
lowest must develop qualitites lifting it to the 
level of worth occupied by the highest. That the 
Kosmic scheme renders this possible, it now 
behooves us to make plain. 

The number 10, representing our planetary 
series, is the true Kosmic number, the one con- 
cealed in the zodiacal 12, and in every twelve-fold 
scheme of evolution. For its infinite variety in 
Unity, the perfected universal scheme demands 
ten degrees of density from Atma down to a cer- 
tain division of the physical, for which reason 
among others, 10 is the perfect number. To bring 
about this Unity, it is given to every solar system 
to perfect some one of the ten principles, or, more 
precisely, some fraction thereof. Solar systems 
exist in each of which the basic principle is far 
more ethereal than our planetary Manas; and in 
the consummation of those systems all below 
Manas will be residuum. These systems, together 
with the host of those somewhat lower — all of 
course unknown to ordinary vision — occupy the 
interstellar spaces, and with their vast circum- 
ferences narrow the gulf separating star from star. 

The opposite of these ethereal systems exists in 
physical systems like that over which our sun 
presides; systems almost the lowest in the uni- 
versal scheme. 

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In an earlier volume of this series it was inti- 
mated, as a blind, that the evolution proper to our 
solar system is that of the personal will principle; 
nevertheless our arrangement of the solar Hier- 
archies made the violet basic, whereas the orange 
physical four were placed above Atma. This 
arrangement was a clue to the truth whose unveil- 
ing was at that time deemed unwise, since it would 
reveal prematurely certain matters touching the 
Avatar. 

Let it now be said that, in the real order of 
principles and Hierarchies for any solar system, 
the dominant Hierarchy — the one representing the 
principle differentiating that system from another 
— is given first prominence. Inasmuch as our 
solar system is to develop the principle which in 
the exoteric order lies below the violet, we have 
emphasized the importance of the orange Hier- 
archies by placing them above that of Atma. 

Since the secret of the orange principle and the 
orange Hierarchies is now divulged, let it be said 
that Personal Will is developing as the dominant 
principle in a solar system only a few links above 
our own in the mighty chain of suns whose lower 
end, just below us, terminates in a system that 
emphasizes the physical more than does our 
evolution. 

Even in that lowest link of the chain of systems, 
a certain physical residuum will remain to be 
refined if possible in greater systems yet unborn. 

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During physical life, we often tread under foot a 
residuum destined to remain as such to the close 
of the Kosmic Maha Manvantara. Since in the 
Kosmic scale this world is near the limit of the 
assimilable physical, we can understand that 
limit; whereas beings at the upper end can under- 
stand the fact of a spiritual limit transcending the 
highest division of our solar Atma. 

In the sublime ascent to the Kosmic Logos, and 
even in the solar system whose evolution is based 
as we have said upon the Astral, death, because 
always largely a matter of the physical, is probably 
unknown despite the fact that that Astral is 
normally far denser than any Astral known to our 
system of planets. In any event, death, as experi- 
enced on this planet, is unknown in solar systems 
only a little higher in the series. 

No wonder that death and passing weigh heavily 
upon the human heart doomed to bear a burden 
unfelt within the charmed circles of countless suns 
at first thought more favored than that under 
which man was born a thing seemingly of perish- 
able flesh doomed to dissolution in its every part. 
No wonder he clings to physical life as a surety 
worth more than every theory of what the future 
holds in store. 

To offset this dull view of human destiny, how 
often has backward and drooping faith been 
refreshed by the dews of heavenly intuition! How 
often have seers of the high and pure vision pic- 

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tured for us the wide millennial earth of harmless 
living and deathless life, no figment of heated 
imagination, but sober fact believeable in the light 
of such knowledge of physical being as in this 
open cycle we are permitted to impart! 

Inasmuch as the physical holds within certain 
of its seven divisions the positive principle of our 
solar system, and of this world chain in particular, 
man must be drawn from posthumous life into 
re-birth to prepare both himself and the physical 
earth for the future just mentioned. To remain 
in the subjective arc of his cycle longer than to 
assimilate the experience of the objective arc, 
means time lost, and position delayed in the pro- 
gressing race, and sub-race. 

In successive life cycles, all earnest souls will 
shorten their subjective arcs until the minimum 
necessary to recuperation is reached. On the 
other hand, a master in his six-fold vesture will for 
a long period remain on the astral plane, provided 
he there can the better labor for the world's wel- 
fare. But even he must clothe himself in the 
basic physical at the beginning of those astronomi- 
cal cycles which most favor his progress toward 
acquisition of that body of which the great Master 
of physical life furnished the pattern. 

H. P. B. 



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THE SECRET IN PRANA 

FOR the enlightenment of students of the 
Ancient Wisdom, H. P. B. arranged the 
seven human principles to correspond with the 
sun and six of the planets. In that scheme, Prana 
the life principle is not to be confounded with 
that Prana of exoteric occultism with which we 
dealt in the chapter " Prana", page 67, "Special 
Teachings." The Prana meant by H. P. B. cor- 
responded with the Sun, that giver of life physi- 
cally and spiritually, and its color was said to be 
orange. The Linga Sharira or astral model body 
corresponded with the Moon; color violet. The 
kamic principle or body corresponded with Mars ; 
color red. The kama-manasic body corresponded 
with Saturn; color green. The manasic body cor- 
responded with Venus; color indigo. The buddhic 
body corresponded with Mercury; color yellow. 
The Auric Egg, enveloping and with its emanations 
penetrating all below, corresponded with Jupiter; 
color light blue. 

The physical body was not in this category; in 
fact H. P. B. declared it to be no principle, but a 
mere shell discarded at death, and so it is, if con- 
sidered in its almost universal aspect. Elsewhere 
she announced what to the discerning student was 
really a clue to the secret hidden in Prana, to wit, 
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universal one capable of manifesting as Jiva the 
One Life. A little reflection shows that the One 
Life, wherein we live and move and have our being, 
does not submit to modification. Evidently if 
Jiva be colorless as she declared, and Prana be 
orange, then Prana takes color from the finer atoms 
of the physical, even as water takes color from the 
glass containing it. Since the human principles 
should be seven, we have in the orange a hidden 
principle; the physical orange of our preceding 
teaching. 

At death the physical body is cast out of the 
Auric Egg, but the foundation atoms, those pre- 
siding over the physical organs and parts, in fact 
the master workmen of that body, pass into pralaya 
and are retained as extremely minute particles 
within the Auric Egg. At the same time the Linga 
Sharira or model body dividing, the coarser par- 
ticles associate themselves with the dead physical, 
and decay with it. 

Next, when the Linga Sharira proper is dis- 
carded, the coarser parts of the kamic body asso- 
ciate themselves with it, while the foundation 
atoms of the Linga Sharira experience Pralaya 
within the Auric Egg. The kamic body next 
discarded, the coarser particles of the kama- 
manasic body stay with it, but the basic atoms of 
the kamic body remain in pralaya within the 
Auric Egg. The kama-manasic body afterward 
discarded, its basic atoms experience pralaya 

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within the Auric Egg. Little or nothing of the 
manasic body adheres to the dead kama-manasic 
body. 

The resurrection of the outer body of the great 
Master of physical life was accomplished through 
expansion of its permanent foundation atoms 
which, though suffering from the shock of the 
painful death of the coarser physical particles, 
were not paralyzed as in every other instance. 
Why then have the saints and martyrs of all 
the ages failed to resurrect their foundation 
physical atoms? For several reasons, some of 
which will now be explained. H. P. B. once said 
that the mere materialist impresses upon his 
astral brain the belief that physical death ends 
all, and, as result, in posthumous life that brain is 
obsessed with a notion that it ought to be dead, 
that it is dead. The outcome is a semi-conscious 
astral condition lasting for an indefinite period. 

The belief is almost universal that the physical 
body dies in all its parts, and so it seems to do, but 
largely because of that very belief which Jesus 
sought to refute through his numerous appearances 
after the resurrection. Men like St. Simeon 
Stylites have hated and tortured their flesh; thus 
at death paralyzing its foundation atoms for many 
centuries, and so delaying the progress so desper- 
ately desired. This despite the fact that the life 
of Jesus offers no warrant for such stupidity. The 
Son of man came eating and drinking with publi- 

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cans and sinners, but always with that restraint 
which safeguards the wise. Maltreatment of the 
flesh is sourced in gross misunderstanding of the 
purpose of the sacrifice on Calvary. 

Another reason why none have risen as did 
Jesus: The physical is the most obstinate of the 
seven principles; while the three next in ascent are 
decreasingly so. Because the most tractable of 
the seven, the upper three have fully attained 
immortality. To perfect the orange principle is 
the most difficult task ever allotted to the human 
race. Certain masters have to some extent per- 
fected a thin and transient physical not to be 
compared with the outer robe of the risen Christ. 
Touching the Christ physical, there is a mystery. 
Despite its attainment, may it not be subject to a 
certain diminution of power so that its full 
immortality requires a fresh descent into matter? 

Another reason why Jesus became the first fruit 
of physical immortality: As master of the orange 
ray, he received much from his Father in Heaven; 
not Jehovah, but the great head of the Orange 
Solar Hierarchy. Concerning what he received, 
that is a mystery not to be understood until one is 
on the threshold of attainment. 

H. P. B. 



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BAPTISM 

IN respect to the efficacy of baptism, widely dif- 
fering views have long obtained. In both 
the Roman and the Greek Catholic Communion, 
baptism is a sacrament essential to salvation, 
whereas, to certain other confessedly Christian 
denominations, it is only a symbol, and of itself 
non-effective. Between these extremes there is 
an intermediate but little-known view which we 
would present in a brief way, since thorough 
explanation would require our delving deep into 
matters revealable only during initiation into a 
certain Lodge degree. 

As now understood and practiced, baptism does 
not ante-date the days of John the Proclaimer of 
the Messianic Age. Jesus himself was baptised by 
John, thus showing ordinary baptism to be the 
first and necessary part of a double process. Of 
the second and more vital process John said: 
"he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and 
with fire." So much as preliminary; and now let 
us hint at certain forces which, because of baptism, 
become operative on the hidden side of things. 

As used by John, water corresponded with the 
purified principle of personal will proper to the 
violet planet, the whereabouts of which remains a 
secret in the custody of the Initiates until the time 
when that astral sphere shall be visible to at least 

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the worthier portion of the human race. Con- 
cerning the orbit of the invisible planet, let a hint 
suffice. Its aura to some considerable extent 
penetrates that of our own seven-fold globe. 

When the regent-ship of Jehovah ended, and 
Earth's rightful ruler came into his own, the violet 
planet ceased not its aid to this world, but were it 
not for certain requirements complied with, that 
aid henceforth would be far less direct and dis- 
coverable. That aid was to man's personal will 
during the difficult task of its purification. 

Baptism is an occult ceremony affecting the 
human personal will; in fact it is a direct appeal to 
the Luna Chohans for the special aid that, because 
of certain laws which are indeed basis, these great 
beings must render. In infant baptism the appeal 
is made by the child's sponsors; and in adult 
baptism it is made by the individual himself. In 
either case, this appeal is from the Ego; conse- 
quently the outer personality is ignorant of the 
matter. 

Even as John announced, Jesus, the Christ, 
came to baptise with fire; again an occult ceremony, 
but operative on the human spiritual will, since it 
is an appeal to the sublime Jovian Hierarchy, the 
highest in the planetary worlds. Because the 
Master had not as yet received that greater bap- 
tism which only he could give to others, he dele- 
gated to his disciples the preliminary water bap- 
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never before was bestowed on any of our race, 
began in the Garden, and was finished on Calvary. 

Evidently the Baptism of Fire received by cer- 
tain of the Christian martyrs, and which, in her 
excessive zeal for the salvation of heretics, Mother 
Church forced upon them, is not the one proclaimed 
by John. When the personal will of the Master 
Jesus became wholly harmonized with its spiritual 
other, and consequently his principle of earthly 
desire was brought to at-one-ment with that polar 
opposite his buddhic principle of Divine Love, he 
became the great High Priest empowered to bestow 
on all worthy ones the fiery baptism; not as a seal 
of their perfection, but rather as the surety that 
eventually they would attain the similitude of the 
Christ body; one deathless, though laid in the 
tomb. As elsewhere we have said, since he was 
way-shower to the human race, the attainment of 
that body by Jesus was the sacred, secret, and 
central object of his life on earth, for, to para- 
phrase Paul's teaching: As in the Adamic body all 
die, so in the Christ body shall all be made alive. 
For mankind the means necessary to attainment 
are many. Thus far we have touched upon two, 
the Eucharist, and Baptism. For the first of these 
see "Arcane Science," p. 75. 

Of John, the Master uttered the enigmatic 
words: "Among men that are born of women there 
has not arisen a greater than John the Baptist; 
notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of 

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heaven is greater than he." Evidently an explana- 
tion of the words: "the kingdom of heaven" 
would throw much light on this dark saying. We 
teach that this "kingdom" is to be established on 
the earth, and in the New Jerusalem which the 
Revelator saw coming down from God out of 
Heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her 
husband. 

Entrance into the city whose length and breadth 
and heigh th are equal, in fact the cubical city, is 
for the elect only, the twelve times twelve thou- 
sand; in other words the square, or, to speak 
plainer, those who will fill the length and breadth 
of the city. Baptism by water and afterward by 
fire, are necessary preliminaries to citizenship. As 
John had not then received the fiery baptism, he 
was less than the least among the one hundred 
forty and four thousand visioned by the Revelator. 

H. 

MATERIAL RICHES 

THEN said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily 
I say unto you, that a rich man shall 
hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven." 
Matt. 19:23. 

When a dying man surrenders his material 
riches, rarely is the act prompted by generosity. 
Almost always the man is succumbing to the 
inevitable; especially if his riches were accum- 

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mulated through life-long endeavor. Passing out, 
such a man soon finds himself well and strong, and 
quite capable of enjoying his wealth were it but 
of a spiritual rather than of a material kind. 

If now this man's interest centered in money- 
getting, he realizes that still his money bags are 
somehow a part of himself. Watching over them, 
he grieves at each unwise loss, and perhaps he is 
filled with impotent anger at the squanderings of 
his idle and careless relatives. Evidently such a 
man is very near the earth. For an indefinite 
period he is self-barred from the kingdom of 
heaven. Even if this man had devised large sums 
to various charities, he nevertheless is held to a 
comparatively low level until assured that his 
wishes are wisely carried out. 

On the other hand, if during his earthly life the 
man had given generously to worthy ends, he then 
saw the outcome, and in posthumous life was at 
once able to enter into his reward. Such a sequel 
was in the mind of Jesus when he said to the young 
man of great possessions: "Go and sell that thou 
hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have 
treasures in heaven." 

If riches honorably acquired, but left intact to 
be distributed after the death of their possessor, 
often prove a weight in his posthumus life, what 
must be the heaviness of ill-gotten gain? 

Certain pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish 
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treasure; and, as a result of centuries of vigil, they 
have acquired the power of turning away almost 
every seeker even when on the verge of discovery. 
If one could see the frenzy of demoniac rage with 
which the near approach of treasure-hunters fills 
these miserable creatures, he would realize what 
hellish conditions are. Not until a good angel 
causes some one to unearth the spoil of raping 
and murder, can these earth-bound beings approach 
anything like agreeable conditions. 



TO THE WOULD-BE PUPIL OF THE MASTERS 

NEARLY every earnest student of the Secret 
Science hopes that some time, somehow, he 
shall be brought into direct touch with the Masters 
of the White Lodge, or, rather, with that Master 
to whom he is drawn by love and reverence. 
Now while the wish is a prophecy, there may 
be, and often are, certain obstacles that defer 
fulfilment of his desire even for one or more incar- 
nations. Of various hindrances, some are unmen- 
tioned in open instructions; so of these we would 
speak, especially to those who imagine that 
occasionally partiality is a factor in the choice of 
the candidate for Lodge affilliation. 

It is well-known that for special work on a large 
scale, the Lodge at times uses men by no means 
perfect morally; but it is not known, save to the 

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few, that Masters do in rare instances receive to 
themselves, and fit for special duties, candidates 
who in some ways have not yet attained the 
standard of many who in vain seek entrance to 
the halls of initiation. To avoid misunderstand- 
ing, let us add that no Master receives such a 
pupil unless that pupil's past and present indicate 
that certain faults are being overcome, or soon 
will be in the process of cleansing. 

Some lines of Lodge work demand such unusual 
aptitude that the Master presiding over that work 
must perforce select among many would-be pupils 
not the most virtuous, but rather the only capable 
one. This explanation is for those who doubt the 
wisdom of the Lodge in singling out one who, 
from their limited viewpoint, seems unworthy of 
preferment. 

Service faithfully performed is the golden key 
admitting to the presence of the Masters of the 
White Lodge; but service begun only in the present 
life is not enough. The servant must have been 
a probationer during two former lives. The first 
life was the shaper of resolve, and the second was 
its test. The third life sets the seal of success on 
service which is to continue during the future ages 
of the world. 

Were the aspirant accepted during the first life 
of service, he might fail in the second or test life, 
and, since reaction is the equal of action, event- 
ually he might fall into the company of the black 

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brotherhood, and become one of its most vindi- 
cative members. This sometimes happened until 
the law governing afhlliation with the Lodge was 
made more stringent. As it is, failure is possible 
to some who in the second life withstood its test, 
and in the third life have received the first or 
probationary Lodge degree, and even have passed 
to the second or test degree; but no initiate of the 
third degree has ever proved false to his vows and 
duties. 

On the other hand, some who in the second life 
failed in a measure, have in the third life redeemed 
themselves sufficiently to warrant acceptance by a 
Master, but never in this third life are these 
allowed to progress beyond the second or test 
degree. The above statement should both warn 
and encourage those determined ones for whom 
the golden portals have not opened, and to whom 
no inspiring voice has sounded a welcome to the 
halls of initiation. 

It is evident of those who crave preferment for 
its mere prestige, and the awe, respect, admira- 
tion, or else the envy induced in their companions, 
it is evident, we repeat, that these vain self-seekers 
are creating a well-nigh impassable barrier which 
for more than one earth-life will stay them from 
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THE EARTH CHAIN 

MASTER M. once said to a certain pupil: 
"Since first appearing here, you have 
seemed to live many lives, but truly you have 
lived only one. In each re-birth you looked upon 
that one from a certain angle. Some day you will 
know your total of lives as bright deeds made 
permanent, and dark ones erased by karmic 
action. You will see these many lives not as an 
extended chain, nor as a great circle of links, but 
as countless irridescent spheres all interpenetrating, 
and enclosed in one large and radiant sphere 
which is your self and your one life." 

Our seven-fold planet is the abode wherein is 
lived the one life of each human being. Every 
seeming life of the seeming many, whose total is 
this one real life, is in a circle extending from the 
atmic plane of the planet to the physical and 
return. This circle, without a resting point, is 
divisible into twelve arcs; six in the descent from 
the turning point of the atmic plane to the turning 
point of the physical, and six from that line to the 
atmic line of descent to the renewed physical. 

Evidently the septenary globe, or globe chain 
so-called, is to man a habitation in which he 
glimpses Truth from seven viewpoints. Innum- 
erable other viewpoints of Truth exist, but not for 
man until he outgrows the limitations of this 

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planet, or, like certain advanced representatives 
of the race, he gains in part, the viewpoint of other 
planets in the septenary series. To no human 
mind is the solar viewpoint of Truth communi- 
cable except at certain astronomical cycles. Then 
the great Avatars, the world teachers, the enlight- 
eners of the race, receive their messages, and are 
sent forth. 

Since every globe-chain must develop a certain 
dominant principle, that principle is for that globe- 
chain the one to which all others are subordinate. 
For the Martian globe-chain that principle is 
Kama; for the lunar chain that principle was the 
Astral, while for our chain it is the orange physical. 

The perfecting of the orange physical being the 
supreme task and desideratum both for man and 
his world, why did the revealers of the Ancient 
Wisdom seemingly depreciate the physical, and 
even exclude it from the septenary series? The 
answer is not difficult, as we shall show. 

When as a simple mindless creature of but one 
discernible principle, man began his evolution in 
the first planetary round, that principle or body 
was the orange unmixed with grosser elements. 
Later he received from the lunar pitris other 
principles, among which was the untaught desire 
principle of Kama, and the just discernable mind 
principle of Kama Manas. In conjunction with 
the original orange, these brought about what the 
Ancient Wisdom denominates the first fall, that 

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which in after times was duplicated by Adam, the 
generic name of the first root race of this fourth 
round. Descending into a lower than their native 
orange division of matter, the first race thus were 
eaters of the tree of good and evil; therefore they 
experienced death as the second race. 

During ages many and long, the orange in man 
became increasingly mixed with gross material 
elements. At the middle of the fourth round, that 
lowest arc of human progress, man's spiritual 
forces began their upward pull on the lower quater- 
nary. Therefore his slow rise toward the purity 
of the original orange plus that experience which 
is the fulness of human wisdom. The history of 
the race proves that the lower quaternary lacks 
buoyancy necessary to its rise into the pure regions 
of the spirit; hence the necessity of emphasizing 
the office of the higher triad. 

The revealers of the Ancient Wisdom deemed 
it unsafe to depart from this emphasis during that 
era of materialism and material philosophy, the 
last quarter of the nineteenth century. However, 
that Truth might have its witness, in place of 
the orange physical they inserted in the septenary 
series of human and planetary principles the great 
Kosmic principle of Jiva, giving thereto the name 
Prana, one proper to a substance but little removed 
from terrestrial matter. 

Perhaps the inaugurators of the Theosophical 
Movement overrated the preception of their 

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students, or, what is more likely, the hiding of the 
orange beneath the guise of Prana was a touch of 
skill worthy of those who in their teaching habitu- 
ally employ such methods. 

H. P. B. 

RESURRECTION 

THE doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh is 
an ancient one. In the Zoroastrian faith, 
after the final discomfiture of Ahriman, Ormuzd 
will re-assemble the scattered material atoms of 
every human body in the great all-inclusive resur- 
rection still believed in by the faithful Parsees. 

The Jews borrowed from the Persians certain 
beliefs concerning the resurrection. The Old 
Testament contains some references to the Jewish 
conception, thus Job: "though after my skin, 
worms destroy this body, yet in the flesh shall I 
see God." Both the Talmud and the Targums 
contain abundant evidence of faith in a fleshly 
resurrection. 

Retaining many dogmas of its parent Judaism, 
primitive Christianity held literally to a bodily 
resurrection, as witness the church Fathers in its 
exposition and defence. Thus Justin Martyr, Ter- 
tullian, Chrysostom, Augustine, and even the 
Greek philosopher Athenagoras. To quote from 
Augustine: "every man's body however dispersed 
here, shall be restored perfect in the resurrection. 

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Every body shall be complete in quantity and 
quality." 

Into his composite doctrine, taken from several 
sources, Mohammed incorporated the Persio- 
Jewish doctrine of the resurrection. The theolo- 
gians of the middle ages, and especially the 
Scholastics, speculated minutely on every imagin- 
able detail of a gross physical resurrection. They 
defended their most absurd deductions with the 
argument that to Infinite Being all is possible. 
True the Manicheans of the first centuries, like 
the earlier Sadducees, had denied a bodily resur- 
rection, but always such doubters and deniers 
were in the minority as afterward in the middle 
ages when, in matters of religion, faith and reason 
had little in common. 

Notwithstanding the arguments of common 
sense, and the drastic criticism of modern Science, 
and also the fairly definite teachings of Paul who, 
as an Initiate of the Mysteries, surely knew the 
inner truth, and yet who, because an Initiate, 
could not wholly reveal that truth, the doctrine of 
corporeal resurrection has always been endorsed 
by the Papal, the Greek, and certain of the Protest- 
ant churches. Moreover, consistent theologians 
of these churches yet cling to this dogma as a 
mystery transcending human understanding. In 
fact they have at no time repudiated these words 
of Augustine: "the resurrection of the flesh was 
once regarded as incredible, but now we see the 

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whole world believing that Christ's earthly body 
was borne into heaven." 

Unquestioning acceptance of the doctrine of 
physical resurrection, or its rejection in toto, is an 
extreme which, down the Christian centuries, 
should have been avoided for a rational inter- 
mediate view, that of the thoughtful minority who 
hold that in the risen body of the Lord a profound 
change must have taken place, because he entered 
freely through closed doors. Moreover, a body of 
ponderable physical substance, however purified, 
could little adapt itself to realms wholly spiritual. 

The permanent body described in preceding 
chapters, and there denominated "the orange 
physical," has no weight determinable by physical 
balances, however delicately they are constructed 
and poised. Therefore to move naturally on the 
dense and gravitative physical earth, such a body 
would take to itself weighable particles, the throw- 
ing off of which would result in its ascension. 

Not necessarily having in mind the Jewish 
tradition of the indestructible bone Luz around 
which, in the fulness of time, the old flesh would 
gather, Paul the Initiate hides, under the symbol 
of a grain of wheat sowed, what we understand to 
be the truth concerning the Resurrection. That 
his symbol has been interpreted to signify that 
every human body contains a minute but inde- 
structible nucleus or seed of flesh or bone which in 
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absence of knowledge concerning the seven-fold 
constitution of man. 

As made known on page 122, "Special Teach- 
ings," and also in the chapter "The Secret of 
Prana," Occult Science teaches that during post- 
humous life, the permanent foundation atoms of 
the physical body exist in pralaya — seeming 
death — within that highest of man's bodies the 
auric envelope. At the culmination of man's 
progress, or possibly somewhat earlier, these atoms, 
having been wholly purified, are to expand into a 
body resembling that of the risen Master of 
physical life. 

To Paul the Resurrection was the supreme 
event in the world, and naturally the central 
theme of his message to the Gentiles. Certainly 
the Resurrection was the unique event in human 
history and, as St. Augustine declared, a thing 
once regarded as unbelieveable. Tradition it is 
true had given to both Enoch and Elijah a paradise 
whence in the physical body they would descend 
to earth in the last great day, but this was mere 
popular belief, nothing more. 

In his brief epistle, Jude touches on a matter 
taken from an apocalyptial book: "The Ascension 
of Moses." This matter, bearing on our teaching 
as to the nature of the body of the resurrection, 
deals with the contention of Michael and the 
devil for the body of Moses. To one acquainted 
with Eastern methods of imparting truth, Michael 

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there symbolizes a resurrection like that after- 
wards consummated by the Master. On the other 
hand, Satan symbolizes the death of the entire 
physical as a heritage which, according to the 
ancient Eastern Wisdom, was received from 
the first or deathless Adamic race when, having 
fallen from the pure orange physical into gross 
matter, they became the mortal second race. 

If — as we have argued and expounded — the 
orange physical is to be the universal possession of 
the purified human race, and if — as generally con- 
ceded — that consummation had glorious begin- 
ning in the risen body of the Master, it is but 
reasonable to suppose that, prior to his day, some 
faint likeness of that glory was attained by the 
great forerunners of regenerate mankind. 

Of all representatives of the race wherein to the 
Master incarnated at the beginning of the great 
cycle of Pisces, Moses was most capable of winning 
the immortal physical vesture as an indisputable 
possession. To one familiar with Eastern methods 
of teaching, it is evident that the dispute of those 
opposites Michael and Satan, signifies that Moses 
at best had attained only to an imperfect and 
perishable vehicle formed from the higher division 
of the physical. 

In arguing for the Master a permanent physical 
vehicle, we relegate him to no remote and undis- 
coverable center of the astronomic universe, but 
locate him here in close touch with his younger 

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brethren of the human family. Unsensed by the 
gross faculties of the lower nature, but known and 
proven to the higher man, he awaits our growing 
toward his own seven-fold perfection of body, soul, 
and spirit; that millennial condition of mankind 
on the renovated globe which is symbolized as the 
new Jerusalem, the Holy City that lieth four 
square, its corners resting in fact on Earth's 
cardinal points; the city of equal length and 
breadth and heigh th; the cube whose interpreta- 
tion is the world itself. 

H. P. B. 



THE NEW BIRTH 

TN the third chapter of St. John are found the 
-1 memorable words of Jesus to Nicodemus con- 
cerning the new birth. The light which our 
previous chapters throw upon the orange principle, 
discovers a new meaning in the teaching which so 
perplexed the Master of Isreal, though he was 
learned in the doctrines of Moses and the inspired 
utterances of the prophets. Our contention is 
that the great Way-Shower came not only to per- 
fect in himself the body of the resurrection, but 
also to enlighten others as to the slow but sure 
methods necessary to its attainment. 

Jesus' saying: "Except a man be born again he 
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fold proposition, to wit, that he can be born again, 
and that consequently he can see the kingdom of 
God. Let us now build a brief teaching upon the 
new birth and the Kingdom. 

The resurrection of the Master was a new birth ; 
one inaugurating an era of possibilities which, 
however long in the perfecting, did actually begin 
on Easter Morn. His teaching that man must be 
born of water and of the spirit is not contrary to 
our view for, as Jesus said, what is born of mere 
flesh is flesh. Powerless of itself, the flesh must 
be raised and purified to the requisite degree by the 
Spirit and by water. 

To the word water the Church has given only a 
literal interpretation; but, in the arcane symbology, 
water represents the lower astral element of per- 
sonal will; while, in this instance, spirit signifies 
that divine Astral Light the Spiritual Will. Water 
is the medium in which fluids of differing specific 
gravity can be made to mingle; so, at bottom, the 
baptismal water symbolizes the union in man of 
both his personal and spiritual will. In brief, the 
body that is to be is ever perfecting through the 
combined powers of the entire man. 

"The Kingdom of God" of which Jesus spake to 
Nicodemus, what is it? We must take exception 
to the almost universal reply that Heaven alone is 
that Kingdom. Heaven is really the place of rest 
and recuperation; but the true abode of man is on 
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in the new Jerusalem of the Revelator. It is in the 
orange physical world whose components are to 
correspond with the orange physical of man. 

As for the resurrected body of the Lord, its 
coarser physical particles were thrown off. So, as 
we have said elsewhere, from the perfected sub- 
stratum of the earth, the dying shell shall be dis- 
carded to swing in space as a dead world, or else 
to be drawn from its orbital path to become a mere 
satellite of some planet and its evolving races. 

In verses 14 and 15 of the chapter here dealt 
with, Jesus says: "And as Moses lifted up the 
serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of 
man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth on 
him should not die, but have eternal life." Evi- 
dently the Master is speaking of his crucifixion, 
and its effect upon his following, but, like all in- 
spired teachers, he, the greatest among them, 
hid meaning within meaning. Thus that lifting 
up signified the acquisition of a body whereto his 
followers should look as their divine pattern. 

This body, to shape and cohere in the faithful, 
and for the furtherance of which the sacrament of 
the Lord's supper was in part instituted, was 
ardently desired of Paul, and this desire was 
breathed into all his epistles as not for himself 
alone, but for the faithful whom he admonishes 
thus: "My little children of whom I travail in 
birth again until Christ be formed in you." Voicing 
his personal aspiration, he also says: "If by any 

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means I might attain unto the resurrection of the 
dead." Again, speaking for all believers: "Who 
shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned 
like unto his glorious body?" 

Paul the optimist perhaps underestimated the 
difficulties for himself, and especially for his fol- 
lowers, of early attainment to what Jesus in his 
answer to Nicodemus called eternal life. To the 
Initiate Apostle that life was the fulness of being 
due to the possession of the Christ body. The 
incomplete condition of the faithful without that 
body, Paul has symbolized in the much misunder- 
stood verse from 1st Thessalonians, chapter 4, 
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, Breth- 
ren, concerning them which are asleep." We hold 
that only the physical is indicated as sleeping, 
since as yet it had acquired no vital force where- 
with it could rise from the grave. Paul however 
gives assurance that this end shall be attained: 
"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, 
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God 
bring with him." 

In view of the words of Jesus to the Sadducees: 
"God is not the God of the dead, but of the living;" 
it is unbelieveable that the divinely commissioned 
Apostle would subscribe to a theory so at variance 
with the unswerving spirit of the Master's teaching 
as is that of the sleep of the dead. Neither could 
he, the Initiate of the Greater Mysteries, have 
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relegated the souls of the disembodied to the dark 
regions of the underworld. 

The Gospels give manifold sayings of Jesus 
which contain other than surface meanings. Let 
us quote some of many inwardly relating to the 
body of the new birth. "I am come that they 
might have life, and that they might have it more 
abundantly." "As the Father that raiseth up the 
dead quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth 
whom he will." "For as the Father hath life in 
himself, so hath he given the Son to have life in 
himself. " 

Certain sayings inwardly recognize the mystic 
efficacy of the Lord's supper in furthering the body 
of the new birth. Thus: "I am the bread of life;" 
"Whoso eateth of my flesh hath eternal life." 
"This is the bread which came down from heaven 
that a man may eat thereof and not die." "He 
that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood 
dwelleth in me and I in him." Lest a gross inter- 
pretation should be given to this last, Jesus said: 
"It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth 
nothing." 

We contend that to Peter, and to Paul especially, 
and even to the church of the first three centuries, 
the chief event in the life of Jesus the Christ, and 
in fact the very crowning of his work, was rather 
his resurrection than his death; and that Paul in 
this foresaw for the Christian world its greatest 
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your faith is vain: ye are yet in your sins." Our 
view is of course remote from that of Augustine 
and Calvin and his kind, and is by no means in 
harmony with certain dogmas gradually raised on 
the death of the Master. 

In answering the question as to the Lord's death 
the Apostle says: "That through death he might 
destroy the power of death, that is the devil, and 
deliver those who through fear of death were all 
their lifetime subject to bondage." This bondage 
was the inherited race fear of Sheol, that dreary 
abode soon to rob them of physical life and its 
fulness, and to imprison them, as it did father Adam, 
as mere joyless shades no better than those peopling 
the Greek and Roman Hades which, in its lowest 
division, touched the gulf of Tartarus that abode of 
unquenchable misery. 

Now however, the resurrection of Christ proved 
to the faithful the possibility of a body fit to inhabit 
brighter spheres, and in fact the brightest. The 
exact constitution of that body was not known, 
and little inquired into. Enough that rescue was 
possible through this body of deliverance and of 
the new birth. 

Because of the prevailing belief in the soul's 
descent to Sheol, a belief inherited from Judaism, 
itself a borrower, speculation was rife in the early 
Church concerning the whereabouts of Jesus dur- 
ing the time between his death and his resurrection. 
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spirits in prison; those who were sometime dis- 
obedient in the days of Noah. 

In "The Heart of Things,'' and in the chapter 
"The Resurrection," it was said that the founda- 
tion atoms of the physical body of the great Master 
of physical life suffered on the cross a profound 
shock, but not actual pralaya, that which is com- 
monly understood as death. What before had 
been universal experience, unless we accept as true 
the traditional ascent of Elijah, was not for the 
Master, for within three days the foundation 
physical atoms recovered tone, and repaired and 
revitalized the broken body. Hence we conclude 
that notwithstanding his descent to the under- 
world, the chain binding his soul to his physical 
body was unbroken. 

Concerning the foundation atoms and their 
office in the new birth both of men and things, a 
teaching more ample and particularized than any 
preceding one, is next in order. 

H. 



THE FOUNDATION ATOMS 

IN the chapter "The Physical Body" page 121 
of "Arcane Science," it was explained that 
man's physical body is a temple of many rooms in 
each of which are countless little workmen, tran- 
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while over all is one supreme architect the " Hiram" 
of that body. Also it was said that every organ 
and part is built up and maintained by these 
transient lives; whereas the master workmen and 
the architect are permanent through all life cycles ; 
their period of activity in each physical life of the 
individual being commensurate with the life term 
of his physical body. Moreover it was said that 
the operation of the foundation atoms in man is 
clue to the activity of the foundation atoms in 
worlds, and in all lesser organisms. 

Let us begin the exposition of our subject by 
examining into conditions proper to one of the 
lowest rungs of the evolutionary ladder; in other 
words, into conditions proper to the insect family. 
There the group-soul is the source and center of 
life for its myriad output. This group-soul has in 
charge the fertilized eggs, whether in the body of 
the mother, or whether expelled to develop else- 
where. Not being a physical substance, the group- 
soul is in the fourth spacial dimension; hence, 
however widely separated, its progeny are never 
outside its care. Far below the level of self- 
consciousness, the units of the lower orders of life 
are at death blotted out, and the infinitessimal 
experience of each is added to the collective experi- 
ence of the group-soul which thus progresses 
towards self-consciousness. 

That the units of even the lowest orders con- 
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image in the mind of the group-soul. This arche- 
typal model in its little way corresponds with the 
archetypal model of creation existing in the Divine 
Mind. In the " Heart of Things," and in the 
chapter "Images," was explained the office of 
images in the reproduction of the human creature 
whose foundation atoms reproduce the composite 
image resulting from the effect of both the paternal 
and the maternal image on the model furnished by 
the reincarnating entity. 

Since in the lower species the unit is blotted out 
by death, such permanent physical atoms as alone 
insure the rebirth of individualized physical life, 
cannot there exist. However, because the short 
life and the vast progeny of the lower species 
oblige the atoms proper to each class to toil unre- 
mittingly, it results that they are able to follow the 
group-soul model, and also to meet the require- 
ments of the idealizing group-soul in its efforts to 
lift its output in the evolutionary scale. 

Originally the group-soul of the lowest order of 
life on this planet was vast and nebulous, but 
eventually internal differences brought about its 
division. This, repeated many times during the 
geological ages, has in certain instances greatly 
narrowed the output of each evolving group-soul, 
and brought about the differentiation of species. 
In the first round of our Earth's first and lowest 
manvantara, that which would become physical 
man was but a unit proper to a group-soul whose 

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output numbered many thousands, and possibly 
millions, of lives each blotted out by death. 

When, in the Earth's present or fourth manvan- 
tara, and in the first round thereof, the luna pitris 
descended to occupy the physical bodies of our 
humanity, original conditions were far higher than 
in the first world period ; in fact an individualized 
physical body belonged to every unit of the race. 
Then it was that the foundation physical atoms in 
man began their office as such, thus insuring his 
rebirth as an individual being, despite the fact of 
what we misname death. 

Domestication of the higher animals has brought 
about for some the final division of the animal 
group-soul, and so insured their individual rebirth 
through the foundation physical atoms hence- 
forth associated with each. To the domestic 
animals this is a compensation offsetting the 
cruelty suffered from man their natural protector. 

When our shaping solar system turned on its 
axis, a vast and nebulous bulk, the seven-fold 
mass was but one primitive group-soul. As 
sponsors for all life beneath their exalted rank, the 
Solar Hierarchies first separated the Sun, and it 
became an individual existence whose permanent 
foundation atoms, those proper to the several 
planes, were established in the solar centers and 
sub-centers. From the residue was next built the 
original four planets which, because afterward 
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original group-soul become eleven whose founda- 
tion atoms insured reincarnation to each after its 
eons of pralaya. 

In passing let it be said that the many divisions 
whereby each fragment of the group-soul proper to 
any of Nature's orders becomes a personal posses- 
sion, originates in what are to become the founda- 
tion atoms of the individual being. The division 
of the primal human, whereby the entity became 
male and female, was an event allegorized in the 
story of Eve created from Adam's rib. In this 
instance two dominant atoms, in fact two archi- 
tects, had been evolved. Division of the group- 
soul of any species always results from a corre- 
sponding event. A colony of bees well illustrates 
the operation of the group-soul. The hive is the 
progeny of the queen, the center of life until a new 
queen is developed. Then comes division that 
two group centers may fulfill their office. 

The invisible astral planet holds in its envelop- 
ing sheath the foundation atoms of the physical 
Moon. These atoms are vehicles of the skandas, 
the karmic seeds which, in eons to come, will 
germinate moon-ward, drawing with them the 
violet planet. Then the cold shell of the Moon, 
not dead but in pralaya, is to be vitalized into a 
new birth. Fulfilling their office, the Solar Hier- 
archies will then sow the seeds of a new evolution 
higher than that of the last moon manvantara. 

Considering next the possibility of our globe as 

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the purified abode of a purified race of beings, we 
will touch briefly upon the means to that prophesied 
outcome which, with Isaiah, was the holy mountain 
of the Lord, while with John it was the new Jeru- 
salem that would certainly supplant the old, thus 
making this footstool the abode of deathlessness 
and peace. Nor was this outcome unknown to the 
formulators of the Ancient Wisdom. In their 
cosmogony it had definite place, not as a miracle 
to be, but as the work of methodical law; in fact it 
would result from a separative process analogous 
to those everywhere discoverable in the prodigious 
descent from suns to things. 

Purification of the foundation atoms proper to 
the Earth's physical, astral, kamic, and kama- 
manasic principles, has not kept pace with the 
slow purification of the corresponding atoms in 
man which, even from this planet's beginning, 
were on a far higher level. Therefore the looked 
for Millennium is not, as the ignorant suppose, to 
be an early and direct act of God, but rather is it a 
far-off bringing about through an orderly evolu- 
tionary process. 

For the physical foundation atoms of this globe, 
always on the plane of the orange, even as are 
those of man and the higher animals, that purifica- 
tion means their separation from the lower and 
fluctuating physical atoms. Then will the more 
evolved orange atoms gather around the permanent 
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nine centers, and at many more minor centers of 
what is to become the new Earth; in fact that 
earth withdrawn from its gross material shell, even 
as the violet planet withdrew from the Moon shell. 

The more evolved orange atoms then will have 
acquired a degree of stability far exceeding that of 
the ordinary physical atoms as now existing. Still 
these orange atoms must fall far short of per- 
manency. As for the foundation atoms, since they 
are to carry the karmic seeds of another planetary 
birth, their term of separation from the earth-shell 
will, after the lapse of ages, come to an end. 

Because the foundation orange atoms in man, 
and even the secondary orange, ever have been 
and ever shall be far more evolved than the corre- 
sponding globe atoms, we prophesy of him that in 
that millennial season his immortality and freedom 
from rebirth shall be assured. 

H. P. B. 



A MYSTERY OF RE-EMBODIMENT 

|N "The Heart of Things," in the Chapter "The 
•*■ Specific Influence of the Sexes in Reproduc- 
tion," and again in the Chapter "Images," certain 
mysteries of the generative process were explained. 
This explanation ended thus: "We have for the 
present spoken our last word concerning that great 
secret of Nature, the reproduction of kind." In 

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this third volume of the series we shall here give 
out a few additional facts. 

In the chapters mentioned it was in substance 
said that the one chief atom and the six associate 
atoms peculiar to each of the four lower human 
principles, exist in pralaya in the auric egg while 
posthumous man moves to more and more interior 
planes. As the nucleus of a principal, these four 
chief atoms awaken each to creative activity only 
when, in its descent to re-embodiment, the ego 
reaches the plane proper to that atom. 

The new teaching is as follows : In their unalter- 
able arrangement, the seven chief permanent atoms 
proper to the seven principles of man are a mina- 
ture seven-fold globe chain. From the astral to 
the atmic, these atoms are more and more tenuous, 
and of larger and larger circumference; besides 
they interpenetrate like the globes of our seven- 
fold world. The vibration which the male imparts 
to the spermatozoon (itself one of a group dis- 
tinguishable from six other groups) and the vibra- 
tion which the female imparts to the ovum, attract 
the re-incarnating entity as a whole, but largely 
they attract the lower quarternary by means of 
its four chief permanent atoms. However, com- 
pulsion ensues only through the triple vibration 
caused by the entrance of the spermatozoon into 
the ovum. 

Having drawn the quarternary to the ovum, 
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nary to the requirements of pre-natal life. There- 
fore it condenses to an infinitesimal sphere which, 
entering the ovum, unites with the spermatozoon 
the basic material of its future human body. As 
for those three chief atoms the nucleus of the 
higher triad, conforming only in a degree to the 
double vibration, they envelope the growing foetus 
with a protecting influence. 

After the sixth month of foetal growth, the first 
faint influence of these chief triad atoms is dis- 
coverable by one who has developed keen psychic 
sense. Henceforth, during the first six years of 
childhood, that influence increases and, at about 
the seventh year, the chief permanent atoms of the 
triad, having come more and more under the 
influence of the material organism, condense into 
the heart center, and therefrom influence the 
higher brain centers, even as the Spiritual Sun 
influences that triad of planets Jupiter, Mercury, 
and Venus. 

H. 

THE RAISING OF THE DEAD 

/^OM PULSION ensues only through the triple 
^-^ vibration caused by the entrance of the 
spermatozoon into the ovum." The quotation 
from the previous chapter may well be the basis 
of another teaching, as follows: The male and 
the female vibrations proceed from the positive 

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and the negative components of the Creative Word, 
and require and compel the presence of that third 
component the entity awaiting re-embodiment. 
From this coming together results the union, in 
one being, of the father vibration, the mother 
vibration, and the son vibration. 

Evidently every child in the womb is a new 
manifestation of the triple Word; one largely 
material however, until the incorporation of the 
permanent triad atoms at about the seventh year. 
Thereafter, the growing child more and more 
manifests this Word in both its material and its 
spiritual aspects; the process being completed in 
three cycles of seven years each; in other words, 
when the adult reaches the age of twenty-eight 
years. 

From man's many re-embodiments results the 
evolution of the triple Word as by him expressed. 
Originally a simple trinity, the Word is becoming 
one of exceeding complexity. All re-embodiment, 
whether of worlds or beings, signifies progress 
toward the complex Word that everywhere 
approaches the infinitely complex Word which we 
name God; The Creator; The First Cause. 

When Jesus the Christ would draw Lazarus 
from the dead, he uttered mentally not only the 
father and the mother vibrations which had drawn 
Lazarus to the womb, but also the vibration proper 
to Lazarus himself. Therefore the coming forth 
from the grave was a new birth of the triple Word 

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for, as a posthumus being on the borders of the 
Unseen, Lazarus, obedient to that call, renounced 
the period of rest to which the so-called dead are 
entitled. Only a Master who had developed in 
himself the universal Father and Mother vibra- 
tions, could perform this crowning deed of adept- 
ship. 

The Grecian myth concerning Orpheus' attempt 
to draw Eurydice from the under world with the 
music of his lyre (vibration) is profoundly esoteric, 
and, freed from blinds, it tells the failure of a 
Master who did not maintain the intense con- 
centration necessary to success. As John the 
Baptist, Elijah acknowledged himself inferior to 
the great Master of physical life. Nevertheless, 
when a prophet under the old dispensation, he 
raised the widow's son by means of the triple 
Word. Lacking the power of Jesus the Christ, 
Elijah must needs reinforce his mental utterance 
with physical contact; therefore he stretched him- 
self upon the child when uttering mentally the 
Father vibration, and again when uttering the 
Mother vibration, and yet again when uttering the 
vibration proper to the child when he entered the 
womb. Then, as with Lazarus, renunciation of 
the post-mortem state resulted, and also a new 
birth. 

By the raised widow's son, and by the son of the 
Shunamite woman, (2 Kings, 4:34) and also by 
Lazarus, is foreshown the condition of the human 

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race when mankind shall no more be born of 
woman in that Eternal City — the New Jerusalem 
— come down from God, out of Heaven, upon the 
peaceful and purified Earth. 

As for other stories of the raising of the dead, 
whether in the Bible or elsewhere, most of these 
"dead" were really in profound trance, that 
counterfeit of death. In conclusion: after the 
third day the dead, retiring upward or rather 
inward, have passed the boundaries which render 
impossible their return to the old body. 

H. 

THE PLACE OF HIS APPEARING 

THERE is an occult teaching to the effect that 
the atoms which for ages have built the 
bodies of the different species, from man down- 
ward, have become wholly specialized. As result, 
an atom efficient in the human body would be 
inefficient elsewhere. This is increasingly true of 
the atoms proper to the highest species below the 
human. 

Specialization of the atoms associated with man 
has come to this: those which build the bodies of 
the various races; the white, the black, the red, 
the yellow, and the brown, are gathered into 
groups each of which is wholly capable only in its 
division of the human family. While the anatom- 
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identical throughout the globe, there are many 
delicate differences deeper than the cuticle; dif- 
ferences which these atoms, intelligent on their 
own plane, are wonderfully sensitive to. Hence 
their affinity for this race, or that, or the other. 
Moreover, there are grouped atoms more evolved 
than these, and whose predilection is for nations, 
and almost for individuals. 

The above truths in mind, let us consider further 
a matter with which certain of our teachings have 
dealt; the where and when of the approaching 
Avatar. By some it is believed and taught that 
the East, in fact India, will first behold him. In 
arguing that every world-teacher has been an 
Oriental, these ignore the fact that, with the 
Western world unknown, and Africa a dark conti- 
nent, and Europe benighted in all save its southern 
parts, the great spiritual enlighteners of the world 
perforce have been of Eastern birth. 

Now all is changed. As the destined home of 
the forming sub-race, America must receive the 
swarming millions who, because of the great war, 
are looking hither from the shores of exhausted and 
impoverished Europe. It is to the resulting 
amalgamation of races and race interests that the 
Avatar should naturally come. However, let us 
consider certain factors perhaps unfavorable to his 
appearing in America. 

Some believers in the Avatar would defer his 
coming to a time when a fair majority, or at least 

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a respectable minority of Earth's peoples, have 
evolved to something like that high physical con- 
dition which will enable them to behold him as 
he is. Truly there will be such an Avatar in 
Satya Yuga; nevertheless we contend for the Kali 
Avatar, but, in this age of iron and spiritual dark- 
ness, men must be aided to see, yet how unless the 
Avatar take to his finer physical body certain 
coarser atoms? 

This view allowed, the question arises concern- 
ing both the whereabouts of fit atoms, and the race 
to which they rightly belong. Coming to all 
peoples, the Avatar should properly conform to 
no race type; his physical body should represent 
a composite model. So much for theory. As a 
matter of fact, preponderance of fit atoms proper 
to any one race would perforce ally him physically 
to that race, and perhaps fix his advent with them, 
even if outside the Americas. 

Because the present disturbed equilibrium of the 
world has everywhere profoundly affected the 
atomic groups of the lower planes, we argue that 
the fit time for the Aquarian Avatar is not in the 
midst of it all. The Pisces Avatar came at a time 
of temporary world peace, a lull in the strife of 
nations. Nevertheless, it is best to be at all times 
ready. "Watch therefore; for ye know not what 
hour your Lord doth come." "Therefore be ye 
also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the 
Son of man cometh." p^ 

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THE AVATAR 

The ancient truth sufficeth for a season; 

Meanwhile, in Truth's behalf, I wait an ampler view. 
Prizing the olden, 'tis the better way of reason 

That freely I exchange it for the larger new. 

So, whether Christ descend in power and glory 
To summon Earth before his final judgment seat, 

Or, in the land of hallowed memories and hoary, 

He deign to tread once more with humble human feet, 

I rest in the supreme event contented, 

Nor set my faulty scheme against his perfect plan. 

Unto his purpose hath my willing soul consented 

Ere dawns the Sun of Promise, and the Hope of man. 

Perchance beneath Himalaya's summit splendor 

Of glittering ice-peaks, and far-sparkling domes of snow, 

He turns the wheel of faith, or else the Truth-Defender 
Expounds where broadening Ganges laves the valleys low. 

What if he choose the loud and teeming city? 

Or, like to John, emerge from out the quiet wild? 
Whichever, still his voice is peace and love and pity, 

And recognition beams upon his lowliest child. 

If so decreed, the West shall first revere him, 

Fair-haired and Saxon even as the Northmen be; 

If best, the sweet, persuasive, human shall endear him, 
A swarthy Buddha to our wide humanity 

Who strengthens mightily by his endeavor, 

As man's strong brother wholly given to his part, 

The bond by color, race, and creed, quite sundered never; 
The brother bond within the universal heart. 



THE NEW AGE 

It draweth nigh, that glorious consummation, 
Which prophets told, and seeing men foresaw, 

When nation nevermore contends with nation, 
But, peaceful, turns from all the olden war. 

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Ah! not till then descends the Once-Rejected; 

He hath no message for a wrangling race. 
Prepare the highways of the King expected ; 

Make straight his path in every troubled place. 

So doing, ye shall further that appearing 

Too long withheld, from wistful eyes too long. 

If slothful, ye delay the sight heart-cheering, 
And die untuned to Earth's Hosanna song. 

Upon the Holy Mount your feet are pressing; 

Its curve beneath them is the rounded world 
Whose allied peoples shall have earned a blessing 

When in their midst defiant flags are furled. 

Then on encrimsoned fields the harvests growing 
Shall hide the carnage of the years before; 

And of good deeds the wide and plenteous sowing 
Shall yield its fruitage into Victory's store. 

Then shall the humble creatures be uplifted 
Who raven now by carnal man obsessed. 

Then shall the wheat from out the chaff be sifted 
In judgment due, where all must meet the test. 

Soon may it come, that glorious consummation 

Which filled with hope the prophet's deathless page! 

When Love has welded nation unto nation, 
Then dawns on Earth the better Golden Age. 



CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ 

THAT our Earth is a living creature, a member 
of a family of giants inhabiting the sky, has 
been touched upon in "Arcane Science," Page 186, 
and in "The Heart of Things," Page 69. Concern- 
ing the Earth Entity, much is known that for 
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of high degree. Were certain secrets generally 
accessible, their use might bring catastrophe to 
whole areas of the Earth's surface, and death to 
the dwellers there. As it is, enough of these 
secrets have become known to the hordes of dark- 
ness to keep the hosts of light on the alert. 

Having proved himself wholly trustworthy, 
Christian Rosenkreuz was empowered to initiate 
certain others into the mysteries relating to the 
Earth Entity. His order, in imitation of which 
many spurious ones have since arisen, had for 
central purpose the bringing about of better and 
better terrestrial conditions through the influence 
which these initiated ones could bring to bear 
upon the Earth Entity. The Rosecrucian Order, 
in conjunction with its ancient Eastern original, 
would establish throughout the known world 
branches at those many force centers concerning 
which Rosenkreuz had been fully informed. 

Rosenkreuz claimed instruction direct from the 
great head of the order, Jesus the Christ, who, on 
the Cross of Calvary, received that final initiation 
which made him the ruler of this World, and the 
mightiest influence in it to bend the Earth Entity 
to his bidding, which influence would be greatly 
augmented at his second coming, and finally made 
complete during a certain astronomical cycle; one 
indicated by John the Revelator. Already during 
his life, Jesus had controlled the winds and waves, 
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Earth Being had revealed its displeasure by the 
phenomena mentioned in Matthew 27: 51-53. 

Rosenkreuz taught his initiates that, like man, 
the Earth is a trinity of body, soul, and spirit, and 
that should man keep pure his own bodily temple, 
the Earth would respond with fairer and fairer 
conditions; but should man defile that temple, the 
Earth would respond with drought, and famine, 
and pestilence. Should men unsheath the sword 
of war, the soul of the Earth would raise within 
her, and flood, and earthquake, and volcanic out- 
burst would result. Evidently the Rosecrucian 
Order had much in common with that founded by 
Melchizedek, the object of which was the bringing 
about of permanent world peace. 

Rosenkreuz taught his high initiates that each 
component of the Earth trinity is itself a trinity, 
even as is each component of the trinity called 
man. In an age of Christ worship, he announced 
the divinity of Jesus the Christ, but not his deity. 
While limiting the authority of the Master to this 
planet, Rosenkreuz held that ultimately his 
influence would extend to the limits of the solar 
system. No wonder that, in an age of persecution, 
an order holding such hetrodox views was a secret 
one. 

Concerning the New Jerusalem seen of John, 
Rosenkreuz taught many things; for instance, 
that it symbolized the purified Earth, the future 
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human race, each member of which would possess 
the Christ body; and that this purification would 
result from seven causes: first, the purification of 
man; second, the maturing of the Earth Entity, 
now in the youth of its fourth incarnation; third, 
the influence of the great Sun Entity upon it; 
fourth, the lesser influence of the planetary entities; 
fifth, the zodiacal influence; sixth, the stellar 
influence upon the Earth as it accompanies the 
Sun in his stupendous orbit around a magnetic 
center which Rosenkreuz believed to be the 
Pleaidic seven; and, seventh, the influence of that 
remote Star Group. 

Rosenkreuz made the human influence upon the 
Earth Entity the most potent of the seven, and 
this influence he symbolized as the "philosopher's 
stone" able to transmute the baser metals into 
gold. Every Rosecrucian knew that this change 
should begin with man himself, and that the 
baser components of the physical earth could be 
refined and made indestructable only as a whole. 
Hence to the initiated, the alchemist's crucible was 
known as a mere blind to protect the central 
mystery of Rosecrucianism from the world at large. 

We have revealed somewhat of the deepest 
teachings of Rosenkreuz, because to-day multi- 
tudes are fit to profit by them. Never in its 
entire life has the Earth undergone such a cleans- 
ing as now it is experiencing. Those who at the 
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will realize that then began the greatest advance 
ever known in the history of this planet. 



THE TASKS OF EMBODIED AND OF DISEMBODIED 
MIND 

TIME and space are the flexible containers of 
deeds and events and, in the final analysis, 
exist only that these may be harmonized through 
karmic Law. This truth is apparent to the 
observer capable of comparing certain views of 
time and space peculiar to both embodied and dis- 
embodied mind. To such an observer it is plain 
that these views constitute the chief distinction 
between mind when functioning on the physical 
plane, and when functioning elsewhere. 

It is taught that the idea of time and space 
now obtaining on the earth's physical plane, is one 
which has crystallized apace with the slow solidify- 
ing of that plane. Nevertheless, there is an idea 
of time and space proper to our globe chain as a 
whole; an idea to which we must attain without 
losing sight of certain other ideas of these, all of 
them true from their respective viewpoints. 

There is an idea of time and space proper to the 
astral lunar scheme, or, more precisely, to the 
scheme of the secret violet planet. Moreover, 
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idea of time and space to which it progresses, or 
else to which it has arrived. This being so, how 
are the majority of these various ideas to be made 
comprehensible to our humanity? That our seven- 
fold globe chain contains the means to this neces- 
sary end, let us proceed to show. 

First let it be said that physical plane time and 
space, as understood at this stage of our progres- 
sive world, is for us a necessary idea since evolu- 
tions, whose outcome is more densely physical than 
our own is to be, exist in the three outer planets, 
and, ere the final unification of all views, we must 
have taught the peoples of those planets, and, in 
turn, we must have learned from them the views 
peculiar to their abodes. 

Passing from physical plane time and space to 
astral plane time and space, man, as a disembodied 
mind, fails to comprehend their real nature; hence, 
instead of Lunar truth, he encounters astral 
delusion. Through many posthumous lives he 
must slowly conquer this delusion, even as has 
nearly every white Master, or else — as an accepted 
chela of the White Lodge — he may in a certain 
initiation receive information which will greatly 
accelerate his progress toward Lunar truth. Pass- 
ing to the kamic plane of our earth chain, the 
disembodied mind next encounters delusion in 
respect to Martian time and space. These in turn 
must be pierced to their hidden truth, a slow 
process unless one is enlightened during the cere- 

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mony of an initiation somewhat higher than the 
other. 

Thus the disembodied mind ascends through the 
planes and their delusions in respect to time and 
space, until it reaches its limit of progress some- 
where on the buddhic level. Ere the ego of man 
can attain to perfection, it must through its lower 
personalities conquer the truth of time and space 
on every plane up to that of the higher Manas. 
Meanwhile its own special task is to reach the 
truths of time and space existing on the higher 
manasic, the buddhic, and the atmic planes of our 
globe chain. The ten conceptions of time and 
space above mentioned, will bring man into full 
understanding of conditions on every planet of 
our solar system. 

The crowning work of the human mind, when 
unhampered by the gross physical body proper to 
the present stage of world progress, will be to 
conquer the solar conception of time and space. 
The accomplishing of this means full union with the 
solar Logos. As indicated in what was said touch- 
ing the outer planets, the task of unifying dis- 
similar ideas of time and space is not peculiar to 
our world. Every planetary humanity has its 
special duty in this direction. 

Inasmuch as the humanity of the violet planet 
knows nothing of the time and space obtaining 
below the astral level, and the humanities of suc- 
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scribed in their outlook, it is evident that the 
special duty of our own perfected humanity will 
be to initiate not only the lowest planets, but even 
these six, into the truths of time and space proper 
to our physical plane. Also it is evident that 
every planetary humanity in the series must aid in 
the scheme of universal enlightenment. 

M. 



SOME ASPECTS OF POSTHUMOUS LIFE 

BECAUSE there is an aspect of Time proper to 
each planetary and each solar plane, evi- 
dently to the dwellers on each there should be a 
rational order of events. Since for posthumous 
man this seldom is true, let us now discover some- 
thing of the cause. 

Students and investigators of the occult are 
aware that for our globe chain the physical is the 
plane of happenings, while the planes beyond are 
those of assimilation largely. Evidently almost 
all posthumous happenings have their equivalents 
in the earth life just preceding. 

The mind of perfected man may be compared to 
a flawless sphere, in circling which one would 
encounter neither depressions nor protuberances. 
When functioning upon any inner plane, such a 
mind, and only such, offers no obstacles to the 
order of events proper to that plane; and, as result, 

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this mind would be in harmony with the idea of 
time proper to that plane. 

Our statement gives rise to a query which it 
were well to answer before proceeding: What of 
the fact that, when functioning on the physical 
plane, the most ordinary mind is aware of the 
current of events? The answer is that the physical 
plane is that of karmic action, and, because the 
methodical procedure of Karma so requires, the 
rational order of terrestrial events is imposed upon 
all physical life. This results through the atmic 
principle, the Spiritual Will, that unseen ruler of 
man and all below him. 

Because in all but rare instances, the mind of 
man is comparable to a most irregular sphere, one 
of numerous depressions and protuberances, it 
follows that in the flow of posthumous happenings 
over that mind, some sink almost unnoticed, while 
others collide with obstacles which impede their 
progress, with the result that the event is repeated 
perhaps many times, thus greatly disturbing the 
sequence of events, and therefore the idea of time 
proper to the plane. Nevertheless, there is a 
compensation in this recurrence, since because of 
it, often a needed lesson can be impressed on the 
lower principles during the next incarnation. 

On the posthumous planes, certain events are 
often joined because of their inner similarity; thus 
a deed of youth may be coupled with one of middle 
or later life. In this union, posthumous man is 

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permitted a hint touching buddhic time, and the 
events therein. On the buddhic plane, all deeds 
interiorly alike are seen to be one. When, on the 
lower posthumous planes, disagreeable and even 
painful events are thus united, the hint neverthe- 
less exists. In larger way, interiorly related events 
proper to several incarnations often are joined 
during an earthly life. The resulting hint is for 
the benefit of the ego that, in some more advanced 
incarnation, will impress this hint upon the lower 
personality. 

The earthly blending of certain experiences 
proper to several incarnations reveals that, beneath 
seeming conformity, the order of events on the 
physical plane is subordinate to any special require- 
ment of karmic law. 

From the above teaching it appears that, on the 
ascending planes of our planet, one exists where 
the climber reaches adequate understanding of its 
order of events, and the nature of the time in which 
they occur. The place is that of the higher Manas, 
from whose lofty vantage the illuminated mind 
looks around and beneath with a depth of under- 
standing unknown to certain beings who, on their 
planets, have never functioned, and never will, 
below the manasic level. 

Once the higher manasic plane is gained, there 
is for its conqueror no more delusion, whether he 
be out of the physical body, or in it. This manasic 
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which yet must reach the buddhic level ere it can 
comprehend the possibilities of all-binding and 
all-unifying Love. Attaining this level, one gains 
the Nirvana henceforth his own, whether for a 
season he fraternized with his fellow men, or 
whether on the super-physical plane he remain 
to labor for the world's good. 

That a certain Master of the White Lodge has 
recently attained this level is known to his disciples. 
Having been associated with the races and sub- 
races of the fourth planetary round, this manasic 
Master has learned in succession to control the 
forces of the lower manasic, the higher manasic, 
and even the buddhic planes. Having unified all 
his powers through love, he will in the next decade, 
and in all future decades, exert an uplifting power 
on the entire human family, who in turn will raise 
the vibration of the world. itself. 

H. P. B. 



THE MESSAGE OF A BUDDHIC MASTER 

ANY great teacher coming to the world, will 
conform his message to the idea of life 
proper to the plane which he represents. Thus the 
message of a manasic teacher would be prolific of 
details much appealing to the inquiring mind. 
His dominant tendency would appear in treating 
those abstruse matters which require of his immedi- 

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ate followers far more than ordinary penetration. 
Through these followers he might eventually reach 
the ordinary mind. To this type of teachers 
Socrates belonged, and so even Plato, that inter- 
mediate but for whom the elder sage would have 
survived only as a mere name. 

Jesus the Christ gave to the world no cosmogony, 
but Swedenborg is always constructing and explain- 
ing; and yet Jesus said : " I and the Father are one." 
Thus he declared that knowledge of the Divine 
Mind which proved his superiority to those who, 
in their cosmogonies, would reveal somewhat of its 
workings. None but a buddhic master of first 
rank would utter, from more than theory, the 
quoted words in the way Jesus did. Theosophists 
usually hold that the "Father" of Jesus was the 
Ego. While correct, they fall short of that full 
explanation which requires an even greater Father, 
to wit, the Solar Logos, or, more precisely, a cer- 
tain hierarchy thereof. 

In his message, a buddhic Master seldom 
descends to particulars. Nevertheless, as above 
instanced, his epitome of any large subject reveals 
profound knowledge of its components. To one 
of buddhic vision, the furtherance of that compre- 
hensive unity which it is the great office of Love 
to bring about, is the supreme end; one to compel 
his every effort. Hence, in gathering his immediate 
followers, Jesus chose those best fitted to promul- 
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Judas, that is a matter of far-reaching import. 
Enough that the choice was his whose spiritual 
vision reached beyond the confines and destiny of 
this planet. 

Concerning Saul of Tarsus, it is said that in 
Atlantean times he was linked to some extent 
with the dark hosts. Gradually disentangling 
himself from them, he afterward became well-nigh 
free; but, in the karmic cycle of Pisces, Saul the 
zealot reaped the fruit of certain karmic seeds of 
his own sowing. Therefore, under the obsession 
of his old leader, he became a fanatic breathing out 
threatenings and slaughter against the incipient 
church. Miraculously released from this thrall- 
dom, Paul rose to be the great Apostle faithful 
unto death. From his rise we learn the unwisdom 
of condemning for all time even the one known to 
the Christian church as that basest of mankind the 
betrayer of his Lord. 

Because a buddhic Master, Jesus appealed to the 
heart, rather than to the intellect; hence they who 
heard him gladly were those of whom an old and 
wise soul once said that the Lord must love the 
common people since he has made so many of 
them. Condescending to their comprehension, 
Jesus did not hesitate to illustrate his teaching 
with many current ideas which later scientific 
investigation has shown to be crude, or even false. 

A great manasic teacher might have formulated 
an abstruse philosophy, or perhaps have antici- 

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pated many discoveries of physical science; or he 
might have dilated on the then unknown wonders 
of the astronomic universe, thus gaining the 
adherence of the eminently intellectual few; 
whereas, adopting a simpler method, Jesus would 
bind the world with the bonds of Love. So, for 
like reason, while taking for granted the theory of 
rebirth universally held by Hindu peoples — a 
theory which Jesus never contradicted — Gautama, 
in his buddhic doctrine of the noble Eight-Fold 
Path leading to Nirvanic bliss and union with the 
Divine, is as free from the abstruse as is the Sermon 
on the Mount; but, like that immortal discourse, 
the Buddha's doctrine contains the gist of pro- 
found philosophy. 

The message given out by H. P. B. and which 
embodied the philosophy of Universal Brother- 
hood, emanated from certain manasic and buddhic 
Masters. Supplementing and more fully inter- 
preting this message, much teaching has since 
appeared, and more is to follow. Inasmuch as the 
approaching Avatar is essentially buddhic, one 
coming to his own, the incipient sixth sub-race, the 
unparticularized buddhic method will undoubtedly 
be in order; but, until men generally are weary of 
disrupting warfare, how can the Master begin the 
remolding and solidifying necessary to the stability 
of a unified world? 

H. P. B. 



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THE EGOLESS BEING 

HUMAN intelligence is by no means keen 
enough to reach Truth at a single effort. 
Its approach is only by narrow degrees. Attaining 
a degree, one often deems his desire accomplished, 
but further investigation proves the inadequacy 
of his truth ; so, if of progressive mind, he is impelled 
to a wider and deeper seeking. Eventually he 
realizes that his latest truth is only relative; in 
fact a milestone on the journey to ultimate 
reality. The Eastern method of imparting occult 
truth adapts itself to the natural processes of the 
mind. 

As a light-bringer from the East, H. P. B. 
adhered to the manner of instruction sanctioned 
by her Masters. Hence many of her expositions 
have since been more or less unveiled, or even 
re-stated. In respect to a certain doctrine, one 
long carefully guarded, but finally taught as a 
veiled truth to a small group, and by them com- 
municated to others; that doctrine yet exists as 
originally given out. We refer to the doctrine 
which deals with the condition of the human ego, 
and the fate of man's lower quarternary, when the 
two have been wholly sundered. This doctrine 
contains certain statements which do not dovetail 
into the current conception of septenary man. 
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show somewhat of truth hidden beneath the 
exterior. 

If the student has assimilated certain teachings 
of Volumes I and II of our series (the teachings in 
respect to seven-fold man) he is familiar with their 
departure from the more exoteric doctrine in vogue. 
We regard man as a compound being, a seven-fold 
group-soul built, not from the base upward, but 
from the top downward, in a gradual evolution 
from Jupiter to the Earth where he acquired his 
seventh and basic soul or vehicle, the physical 
peculiar to this planet. On the other hand, the 
usual teaching makes man a triad of real and 
imperishable higher principles which reflect them- 
selves downward as an illusionary triad function- 
ing in an illusionary envelope. 

We maintain that while the lower quarternary 
is negative to the upper triad, and dependent 
thereon for spiritual uplifting, it is as real as the 
planets with which it corresponds. In fact it is a 
permanent entity capable of widening the outlook 
of the upper triad, and therefore joined to it by a 
community of interests. If we declare for the 
usual Theosophical conception of the lower and the 
higher man, we are forced to admit that the sev- 
erance of the cord or bridge binding the two, means 
the death of the lower and illusionary. Should the 
oil be drawn from a lamp, the saturated wick burns 
for a while. So, in analogous way, the lower man 
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baser than the former, until he disappears because 
no longer a self-conscious being. So much for the 
old instruction in respect to the quarternary. 

Considering the separated ego, we discover a 
flaw in the teaching as to the procedure now open 
to its choice. Should the ego retire forever to its 
own proper level, this procedure would mean the 
complete stay of its evolution. If adopting the 
theory that the ego can put forth a new personality, 
another difficulty confronts us. All our great 
Teachers agree that an incarnated being is the 
sum of tendencies and aptitudes acquired in many 
past lives, and in him many karmic seeds should 
come to harvest. Allowing, as we must, that the 
quarternary has for ages been associated with the 
ego, it is evident that a newly-formed quarternary 
would be an anomaly, a being without inherited 
tendencies and aptitudes; also without karmic 
seeds many of which would be undesirable, while 
others would be the reverse. It is difficult to 
imagine just what that nondescript being would 
seem to his parents and friends and the world at 
large. Evidently the teaching is a substitute and 
nothing more. 

If, during its ages of union with the ego, the 
quarternary has produced nothing that can be 
assimilated by the other, then the severance of 
upper and lower will become total; but such an 
unfruitful quarternary it is difficult to imagine. 
The inner teaching is that whatever the ego has 

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acquired from its associate, constitutes an imperish- 
able tie. The base quarternary may sink even to 
the loss of self -consciousness, but, in a future 
manventara, or perhaps in an outer planet, it yet 
will rise to a receptive condition. Then the wait- 
ing ego will reform the old tie, and with almost 
certain prospect of successful outcome, inasmuch 
as bitter experience will have implanted in the 
quarternary an abhorrence of all that wrought its 
downfall. It is taught that some of the great egos 
of our race have redeemed their associates from a 
debased condition induced in a former world 
period. 

SPIRIT GUIDES 

TO the average Spiritualist, a "spirit guide" is 
that peculiarly gifted being whose high 
office is to establish communication between the 
living and the so-called "dead," that the people 
who walk in the darkness of this material 
world may see a great light of truth. Now, as a 
matter of fact, a "spirit guide" is usually a being 
who in the earth condition practised mediumship, 
and whose conscienceness then shifted constantly 
from normal to abnormal; one who in this respect 
has not changed. 

Since the medium has a certain vogue while in 
the flesh, why not when out of it? From what we 
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that passing out has not greatly changed the 
human being either in his mental make up, or 
in his personal peculiarities; but, as for the 
medium, we find that the special knowledge 
obtained in his new organism and environment, 
enables him, in communication, to be the operator, 
whereas once he was the receiver. 

Despite this, should a more positive spirit take 
part in the communication, he, according to his 
nature, will dominate the "guide" for truth, or for 
falsehood. 

For this reason and others, mediumship in the 
past was not countenanced by the great and wise 
ones in the lofty regions of the spiritual world. 
Were it not for that Scientific Materialism of the 
last century which these lofty beings deem one of 
the greatest dangers that ever threatened the human 
race, spirit return would not now be favored, or 
even excused, by those who have seen too many 
disciples of Materialism born actually blind into 
the realms beyond the grave. 

It is most difficult for any "guide" to clothe his 
astral brain satisfactorily with the subtle matter 
from the medium's brain. Unless this clothing is 
well done, lapse of memory, confusion of names 
and messages, and other errors, may appear in the 
midst of correct statements, or else mere telepathy 
may take the place of communications. These 
results tend to bewilder the impartial investigator, 
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for the ridicule or the mirth of the thoughtless and 
the ignorant. 

Among aboriginal tribes, both the witch doctor 
and the medicine man are held in high honor. 
These are always mediumistic, and naturally in 
affinity with a low order of earth-bound spirits. 
Passing to the Happy Hunting-ground, the 
Indian Medicine Man becomes a guide, and a 
person of consequence among his fellows, but, 
knowing the superiority of the white race, he is 
drawn through vanity to the white medium. As 
an aid to his peculiar work, he often instructs 
others in the mystery of "control." 

As a boy, the ordinary male Indian begins the 
severe training necessary to make him a "brave," 
an honor to his tribe, but the girl is destined to 
the drudgery of work which among civilized peoples 
belongs to the male. Because of his enlarging views, 
the Indian "guide" would lift those females of his 
tribe who now are with him, into duties worthier 
than they knew on earth; so, because, from his 
viewpoint, the office of guide is a most honorable 
one, he instructs the brightest among the young 
women around him, in the secrets of his profession, 
with the result that quite a band of Indian girl 
"guides" have attached themselves to mediums 
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PSYCHIC VISION 

AND the graves were opened; and many 
bodies of the saints which slept, arose, 

"And came out of the graves after his resur- 
rection, and went into the holy city, and appeared 
unto many." Matt. 27: 52-53. 

Taken literally, these verses seem at first thought 
to uphold the doctrine of the sleep of the dead 
until the Resurrection morning; but second thought 
prompts the query: " If the dead so sleep, why this 
interruption? Is not the doctrine contradicted 
by it?" Evidently the statement in Matthew is 
exoteric, as is Paul's doctrine of the sleep of the 
dead, and, like that doctrine, the statement was 
suited to a time when little or nothing in respect 
to post-mortem conditions was known save to the 
initiated few. 

However much one may condemn certain results 
of spiritual mediumship, the impartial investigator 
must eventually admit that modern Spiritualism 
confirms the ancient secret teaching that the 
physical and the super-physical worlds are in 
conjunction. 

Many sensitive organisms require no great dis- 
turbance to throw them out of poise, and even into 
rapport with the sub-planes of the psychic world. 
We contend that, in the event which we are con- 
sidering, this happened because of certain phenom- 
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The dead from the "Graves," whose God "is not 
the God of the dead, but of the living," were the 
active inhabitants of those planes of being which 
ordinarily are hidden from human sight. 

One effect of the victory of Right, in the World 
War now behind us, is a steady and rapid rise in the 
rate of vibration peculiar to each plane of our 
composite world. This rise originates in man as 
a composite being, and by him is communicated to 
the spirit of the Earth. As result, the veils 
separating the seen from the unseen are growing 
thinner, so that, within the next decade or two, 
many of the living "Dead" will be seen of thou- 
sands who never claimed clairvoyance. This 
truth in distorted form appears in Pastor Russell's 
teaching, for which he claims Scriptural warrant, 
that soon after 1914 the dead will begin to rise 
from their graves to people the purified earth for a 
thousand years. 

In the interest of common sense we must modify 
still more Pastor Russell's doctrine of the Resur- 
rection of the Dead. It is but reasonable to argue 
that the gradually-rising vibration of the Earth, 
and of the human organism, will cause the super- 
sensible world to emerge gradually from its veil. 

Hence, only the few, perhaps the very few, are 
to have perfect vision; whereas the average indi- 
vidual will see as through a glass darkly, and the 
materialist and the carnally minded may not see 
at all. Again, it is probable that, as in most 

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ancient times, the other world is to appear and 
disappear in accord with the varying bodily or 
mental states of the observer. 

After a certain rate of vibration is attained, no 
closer conjunction of the two worlds can occur for 
a long period of time. This because of certain 
imperfections that persist obstinately both in the 
physical globe, and in the physical body of man. 
Evidently the New Jerusalem to be established 
upon the Earth, is yet of the remote future. 

THE POSTHUMOUS VIEWPOINT 

r*HE observer on any posthumous plane of our 

-*■ seven-fold world, sees that plane merging 

into the one above, or the one below, provided that 

he be located on the upper, or else the lower 

boundary of his plane. 

This fact makes understandable and valid the 
report from the other side of life that, immediately 
after discarding the physical body, one often sees 
that body, and all surrounding persons and things, 
as clearly as when he was in the flesh; in fact so 
clearly that he wonders why he can no longer 
communicate with his friends either by word or 
action. If such an one be not wholly earth- 
bound, his view of persons and things terrestrial 
undergoes a change corresponding with his rise to 
higher planes. 

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his altered perception of all behind, he would 
argue that still he sees the world as when he left it ; 
whereas, he sees only the more and more interior 
and ideal ; in other words, the more and more real 
and abiding. 

The viewpoint of the discarnate should be familiar 
to those who receive communications from the life 
beyond. They should know understandingly that 
their loved ones have outgrown our circumscribed 
ideas of the sorrows and miseries of the world, and 
now, from the vantage point of higher planes, 
behold Divine Justice appointing the experiences 
which are essential to the upbuilding of the com- 
munity, the nation, and the world. 

That the ordinary discarnate being seldom can 
predict the exact time or nature of any future 
earthly happening is evident for at least two 
reasons: Every plane of the seven has its standard 
of time which is determined chiefly by the rate of 
vibration peculiar to that plane. Therefore, the 
almost inconceivably rapid vibrations of the higher 
planes there cause the centuries to pass almost as 
do the years with us. Of all the discarnate 
multitudes, only those who has learned to adjust 
time differences, can determine the date of an 
earthly event. Furthermore, into all earthly 
events, save those pre-determined by the Over- 
ruling Powers, there enters an inscrutable element 
of human free-will, and that free-will usually 

modifies or accentuates the outcome. 

M. 

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THE EIGHTH SPHERE 

/^"^F Avitchi, the Eighth Sphere, commonly 
^-^ known as Hell, many things must remain 
hidden in the secret arcanum of the Initiates; but, 
during the years of a general Judgment like that 
which the World is now in the midst of, some few 
particulars may be given out as a warning, if 
nothing more. 

Avitchi is both a locality and a condition. 
During terrestrial life, one may be in the condition 
through conjunction with Avitchi, but only the 
discarnate few gravitate to the locality. To locate 
the Eighth Sphere, one should first know that our 
seven-fold world, or globe chain, is a septenary of 
concentric spheres; the highest and purest being 
of largest girth, and so ethereal that it penetrates 
every lower sphere. 

Down to the physical, these spheres are of 
increasing densities. Evidently the sixth sphere 
penetrates all below, as so in their order do the 
others, the physical excepted. While the physical 
earth is the smallest and densest of the seven, a 
shrunken astral sphere, much smaller than the 
physical, is hidden far beneath the crust of the 
world. 

In the descent from the apex of the Atmic globe, 
the lowest arc of man's true orbit never reaches 
the Eighth Sphere, the outward shapes of whose 

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denizen have so far conformed to their evil minds 
that no human mother could give them birth. 
Were our evolution an eight-fold one, that sphere 
would participate in the scheme of progression. 
Being outside the scheme, it necessarily is the fit 
and only abode of actual failures. 

Because the heart-center of the highest sphere 
of the septenary is located at the point which 
marks the center of Avitchi, it is evident that 
Divine Love reaches down to the most deplorable 
conditions. This two-fold condition of heart- 
centers is duplicated by the heart of man, and that 
of the universe. 

Imprisoned beneath the Earth's crust, the souls 
in Avitchi (that place of dense and impure astral 
matter) are not conscious of those material fires 
which often seek outlet at the surface; but the 
sulphurous fumes from that vast burning pene- 
trate the Eighth Sphere, thus making it a place of 
bad odors. In many ways, Swedenborg's con- 
ception of the hells does not differ from ours, but, 
concerning their duration, we take issue with his 
teachings. If the hells are eternal, why, according 
to Peter, did Christ preach to the spirits there 
imprisoned? 

In a former teaching we spoke of the non-elect 
of the Pauline doctrine. Evidently these event- 
ually would gravitate to the Eighth Planet where 
a more fundamental manifestation of the Christos 
would reach down and redeem them. When, after 

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his crucifixion, Christ descended to the Eighth 
Sphere, it was because there alone he could accom- 
plish — though but for a brief period — that more 
fundamental manifestation. Whom then he aided, 
and to what degree, is a mystery revealed only to 
high Initiates. 

In respect to the non-elect, let us add a teaching 
never before made public. After a very large 
per cent of the above-mentioned failures have 
gravitated to the Eighth Planet, certain incor- 
rigibles will remain with our planet even when, 
like the moon, it swings a mere corpse in the sky. 
This because no manifestation of the Christos 
possible at this stage of cosmic evolution can 
reach them. 

The dead moon has an Avitchi, and a cer- 
tain evil luna magnetism is centered therein. 
Sufferers from acute mania, and the victims of 
alcohol and drugs, often are in the baleful currents 
from the Avitchis of both the moon and the earth. 

Now what is the fate of the few, fortunately the 
very few, doomed to remain in the Avitchi of our 
globe chain? With total loss of self-consciousness, 
they will pass to a solar system more material in 
its scheme, or else they must await the death and 
rebirth of our own ten-fold system of sun and 
planets. This would mean to them the loss of 
what, in the Secret Science, is termed seven eterni- 
ties. But, as compensation, they would, because 
of certain experiences, be among the foremost in 

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the evolution of an immeasurably remote world 
period. 

H. 



HEART CENTERS 

IN respect to Heart Centers, what little can be 
grasped is understandable only when certain 
facts are acknowledged. To begin with ; no purely 
spiritual philosophy can endure the test of logic, 
for such a monism fails to account for the seeming 
presence of the impure and the imperfect in man, 
the world, and the universe. 

From our view point the universe is a duad, a 
positive half, and a negative half. The positive 
half is the unknown Spiritual Supreme, while the 
negative half is the total of manifest creation, to 
wit: solar systems and their progeny from highest 
to lowest. This negative half is naturally lethargic 
and unprogressive, whereas the positive half is 
inconceivably active. For the full and final per- 
fection of the whole, each requires the other, 
because of itself the positive would be increasingly 
one-sided, or top-heavy, so to speak, while of itself 
the negative would tend back to that primal chaos 
from which it was lifted by the positive. 

That mutual benefit may result, the Supreme 
Spiritual establishes itself at the very heart center 
of worlds and creatures; in fact, at the infinitesimal 
center of every atom in manifest creation. It is 

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taught that the Supreme Spiritual is devoid of 
attributes, but a clearer teaching is that the 
utmost enlargement of human conception of will, 
wisdom, and love, conveys only a dim idea of their 
correspondence with the Supreme Spiritual. Even 
then we are confronted with the possibility of 
many unknown attributes proper to the Supreme 
Spiritual. 

Whether few or many, these attributes are 
summarized by the word Life, a word whose super- 
ficial meaning is understood by all human beings. 
Concerning this Life, or Energy, pulsating in every 
material and immaterial atom, its manifestation 
would seem to be governed by the law of periodicy, 
of ebb and flow. 

From this we are not to suppose the negative 
half of the universe to have no life of its own. 
The synthesis of what is named will, wisdom, and 
love, constitutes an inherent negative life; one also 
conforming to the law of ebb and flow. The ' ' dead ' ' 
human body, and the " corpse " of the moon, each has 
lost only that which utilized its ebbing negative 
life. As for positive Life, it will inform the atoms 
of both — whether assembled or dispersed — until 
the universal night. 

Positive Life is known as the Great Breath. 
This life blood of Cosmos flows from the hidden 
Heart Center of Being to every organ and part of 
what Swedenborg called "The Grand Man." This 
flow is continuous during the great Day of Mani- 

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festation; then, at the very outskirts of creation, 
the life blood turns toward its source and, one by 
one, the outlying Suns and Systems lose their basic 
Life. Among the last to succumb are the Zodiacal 
Hierarchies, and for them there is an order of 
passing. The last to sink into prelaya will be the 
first to waken at the dawn of the New Era, whereas 
the first to sink will be the last to waken. 

What then shall we conclude? Is the darkened 
universe to be deprived of all life? By no means! 
When the physical body of man succumbs, the nega- 
tive life therein falls into recuperative sleep, and so 
in turn the negative lives of those inner vestures 
which posthumous man discards. But in the 
Maha Prelaya, though not till then, the permanent 
in man, and its negative life, lapse into unconscious- 
ness, and his lower vestures are dissipated. So 
with the worlds ! The impermanent disintegrates ; 
but the permanent merely sleeps. Hence the mid- 
night hour of every Maha Prelaya witnesses a 
higher correspondent of the primal chaos into 
which Positive Life, the Word, at midnight once 
breathed Its quickening Breath. 

Lethargy is an inherent characteristic of nega- 
tive life, therefore, the negative aspect of the 
universe has in itself no incentive toward organi- 
zation. From this fact the office of the Supreme 
Spiritual is obvious. Now why is Positive Life 
outbreathed and then withdrawn? Evidently for 
one of two reasons, and possibly for both. Posi- 

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tive Life may obey some imperative limitation, or 
else negative life cannot endure the strain of 
unremitting activity. 

To one holding that the Supreme Spiritual 
accommodates itself to the limitations of its other 
half, and so to the law of influx and efflux, the 
query is suggested: Will this condition obtain 
eternally? Our answer is, that when the other 
can endure the strain of incessant activity, then 
the union of positive and negative will be com- 
plete, the great cycle of Necessity accomplished, 
the Heart Center and the Circumference of the 
universe equalized, and God will be All in All. 

M. 

THE GREAT BREATH 

THE Great Breath, that basic Life whose com- 
plete cycle constitutes a day and a night of 
Parabrahman— a period of 622,080,000,000,000 of 
our years — by its out-breathing and in-breathing 
measures the eons from the birth of one universe 
to that of another. The words out-breathing and 
in-breathing symbolize a process which may be 
superficially described thus: 

Imagine a point of all-surpassing brilliancy 
amidst seemingly empty space, and appearing not 
far from the center of what now are the zodiacal 
constellations. Imagine that point expanding to 
an orb larger than the sun seems to be, and after- 
ward filling the entire circle of the Zodiac. Ever 

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enlarging its circumference, through ages and ages, 
that Life Globe eventually attains to a limit 
which fixes the dimensions of the Universe for one 
great evolutionary epoch. To human sense the 
Absolute Light of that transcendent globe would 
be absolute darkness, and even to the loftiest 
zodiacal intelligences, for instance, those of Taurus 
with its Pleiadic suns, that Light would be seen 
as through a veil. 

Everywhere outside the circumference of the 
universal Life Globe, lethargic world stuff — more 
and more dormant according to its distance from 
that Globe — would fill an abysm limited or unlim- 
ited; but who can determine? The rim of the 
Cosmic Globe will indicate the advance into the 
domain of darkness which Positive Light, associated 
with negative light, has made in that day of 
Parabrahman, which, like all preceding days, 
began at midnight and will end at the next mid- 
day. At that time the circumference of the 
universal globe will begin to contract, and so con- 
tinue during 311,040,000,000,000 years. Then 
only the infinitesimal point will remain. Even 
this will diminish, and so disappear for a moment 
of universal time. There is warrant for the belief 
that the present universe has reached its maximum, 
and is now in process of contraction, but ages 
upon ages must elapse ere the circumscribing 
process reaches the outskirts of our solar system, 
then in its culminating rebirth. 

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In the chapter " Heart Centers," it was suggested 
that Positive Light might obey some demand 
sourced within itself. Our opinion is that, like 
negative light, Positive Light periodically requires 
a subjective condition into which it retires during 
each Cosmic Night, there to receive unknown and 
probably unknowable benefits, while at the same 
time relieving negative life of the stress and strain 
of the Great Day. 

The astrologers of most ancient times knew that, 
in a far off Maha Manvantara, the Universal Life 
Globe at its utmost had expanded only to the 
circumference of the zodiacal circle, whose inlaying 
constellations since then have but little changed 
their configurations despite many rebirths. Then, 
as now, the zodiacal intelligences were governed 
from the Heart Center of the Universal Globe. 
However, as the universe grew, the rulership of the 
newer star-clusters and single suns — our own 
among them — was delegated to those hierarchies; 
hence for the star-clusters and suns indicated they 
are the Lords of Karma. Therefore originated the 
hoary saying that all wisdom and knowledge is 
sourced in the Zodiac. 

By some of the ancient Wise, it was held that a 
secondary and even a tertiary rulership of worlds 
and systems of worlds had been delegated to 
certain constellated intelligences beyond the 
Zodiac. Hence the astrological systems of these 
enlightened star-readers considered many influences 

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originating in certain outlying regions. We regret 
that much knowledge necessary to correct astro- 
logical castings, disappeared from the outer world 
at about the beginning of the Christian Era. 

M. 

THE MASTER HILARION 

OF the Masters of Wisdom, the great world 
knew nothing until the beginning of the 
last quarter of the nineteenth century. For the 
next twenty-five years, information was meagre 
indeed; but the beginning of the present century, 
that which ushered in the new age, brought con- 
ditions favorable to increasing publicity so that, 
concerning those lofty beings, we have to-day 
much information which, earlier, would have been 
premature. What we shall present in regard t° 
the Master Hilarion, contains nothing not already 
known to his direct disciples, and little not pre- 
viously given to the larger company of his less 
intimate following. 

Master H., who is a specialist in the laws of 
vibration, and in the mysteries of sex, is numbered 
among the primary seven, whereas, certain other 
Masters are among the secondary seven, and still 
others among the tertiary seven. H. is known as 
the Master — for this world — of the Red Ray 
occultly connected with the planet Mars; for 
which reason he is in conjunction with certain 

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Martian conditions. H. does not leave the earth 
chain, but, because the outer circle of our seven- 
fold globe impinges on the outer circle of the 
Martian globe at the nearest arc of its orbit, he 
can at stated intervals avail himself of that fact, 
and so in a way become a Martian. He then can 
identify himself with a people originally very 
impetuous and belligerent who, in the long ago, 
put war behind them, and are now living in great 
communities where law and order need no authority 
for their enforcement. 

The color peculiar to Master H. is the purified 
red; in other words, the rose, or, rather, the lilac 
pink. The red places H. among the three who are 
negative to the positive three in the primary group 
of Masters. His polar opposite is the Master of 
the Yellow Ray. As the original red indicated, 
H. has evolved from a rather low position; but this 
fact gives him greater grasp of ordinary human 
conditions than is possible to the almost wholly 
spiritual Master of the Yellow. 

H. might be called the Egyptian Master, for in 
ancient times he was the head of an order known 
as the "Star of the Pyramid." However, before 
the days of Columbus, his interest was centered, as 
still it is, chiefly in North America, and, to speak 
definitely, with that portion thereof which now is 
known as the United States. In the Red Indian, 
Hilarion discovered certain characteristics which 
in very remote times were his own; so, to help as 

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far as possible the primitive peoples of this land, 
he took the humble body and the limited brain 
peculiar to his lesser brethren by whom he was 
known and afterwards remembered as Hiawatha, 
whose great work among the warring tribes was 
the welding of the Six Nations to which he taught 
the simpler industries of Peace. 

It was for a purpose which Longfellow did not 
understand, nor need to understand, that he 
treated the legend of Hiawatha in a poem wherein 
he broke from the influence of European culture, 
and became a real American poet, the producer of 
a wholly original work embodying elements insuring 
its longevity, and even immortality. 

Mr. W. T. Stead occasionally was in touch with 
Master H. whom he and his associates knew as 
"a highly evolved intelligence on whom we did 
not often intrude our mundane affairs." True, 
the Master did not warn Mr. Stead against passage 
on the Titanic. Rather, he spoke in a riddle, 
because what is ordained must be, and obstruc- 
tion only make more difficult the accomplishment 
of those high and just purposes which are known 
to the hierarchies of advanced beings that guide 
the destinies of the world. 

As early as 1901, Hilarion warned his disciples 
in these words, " Children of the new dispensation, 
be ye ready; the war of the ages is upon us!" 
The great original Armageddon even then was 
being fought in the skies, and its battle front was not 

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merely one thousand and six hundred furlongs in 
length as was the front of the earthly Armageddon 
spoken of in Rev. xiv: 20. Rather, the conflict 
between the hosts of Light and those of Darkness 
which ended in the discomforture of the latter, and 
the bringing down of the battle to the material 
plane, was over a line far longer than one thousand 
and six hundred times one thousand and six hun- 
dred furlongs. 

From the beginning of the new century until 
now, Master H. has been chief among many who 
are preparing conditions suited to a verification of 
the accessibility of the spiritual realms, a verification 
that should convince all but the obstinate material- 
ist of whom it can be said that having eyes he 
shall not see, and having ears he shall not hear. 

Furthermore, Master H. — whom certain ones 
know to be the John the Baptist of the new Dis- 
pensation — is preparing the world, and this country 
specially, for an appearance of one of the Great 
Teachers; a spiritual being clothed upon, as was 
Jesus when in the midst of the faithful disciples 
after the Resurrection : a being whom no one will 
dare lay hands upon, and against whom no evil 
mouths will venture to cry out "Crucify him! 
Crucify him!" If one understand that, in a 
materialized body, or rather one having the ele- 
ments of permanency, the atoms will be in a state 
of flux, he sees that not until the rage and hate 
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any great number of human organisms be depended 
upon to furnish the Avatar with wholly pure atoms 
whenever needed. 

Hence the day of consummation may be delayed 
beyond the eight years which yet remain until the 
time indicated by Master H. 



ARMAGEDDON 
(A Prophecy) 

"And I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse; and he 
that set upon him was called Faithful and True, and in 
righteousness he doth judge and make war." Rev. 19: 11, 

Judge and Warrior! Faithful! True! 

O many-crowned, thine eyes aflame! 
Thou of the name that no man knew, 

Though in all human years the same! 

Thou of the vesture deeply dyed 
Amidst the wrathful wine-press red! 

Upon thy spotless war-horse ride 

The King and Lord of thousands led. 

From out thy mouth a sharpened sword, 

The sceptred iron in thy hand, 
Thy look is lightning flashed abroad 

To blast them who against thee stand. 

The beast, and one his image base, 
Condemned of God, disowned of man, 

Cain-like shall nowhere find a place 
Safe from the Law's relentless bann. 

And those that bear the fateful brand, 
And think to share a tyrant's rule, 

In cunning net themselves had planned, 
Shall perish even as the fool. 

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Whereat an angel in the sun 

Shall sound a summons loud and far: 
"The vengeance of our God is done; 

Feed every foul upon his war. 

"Captains and Kings shall be your meat, 
And mighty men of lofty place, 

And of the remnant ye shall eat 

Whose lives were menace to their race." 



ELECTRICAL ENERGY 

SEARCHING for the ultimate particle of matter, 
the physicist penetrates the atom, and finds 
a nucleus, and the electrons revolving around it. 
Since both nucleus and electrons are electrical, it 
appears that matter is really a manifestation of 
electrical energy. The nucleus itself is the mys- 
tery whose solution seems beyond the grasp of 
Material Science. 

In nucleus and electrons the occultist finds 
marvelous verification of the Hermitic maxim 
"As above, so below." When the Logos ruling 
our solar system had condensed the original nebula 
to a sun, and that sun had hurled from its plastic 
bulk the planets which revolve in their appointed 
orbits, the Logos in countless degrees duplicated 
the process down even to the infinitesimal; the 
nucleus and the electrons. 

Evidently the nucleus in humble way is a sun, 
a magnetic center holding to an orbit every electron 
that so accomplishes an evolution which, in the 

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aggregate of nuclai and electrons, will raise the 
vibration of the earth mass to the limit attainable 
by a physical planet such as ours. In respect to 
the force which both sun and electrons thus mani- 
fest, the fact is that that which on the material 
plane appears as this energy, is counterparted on 
each higher plane, and everywhere and always is 
a trinity of forces. That form of electrical energy 
which has become the many-handed servant of 
man, an energy familiar yet intangible, is only a 
cruder manifestation of power. 

This electron energy contains a negative power 
of destruction which, if wholly operative, could 
almost hurl the earth from its orbit into the 
spacial deeps. Times have been when that nega- 
tive, coupled with its more subtle correspondent 
in man, has deluged continents, or else has 
destroyed them through outbursts of subterranean 
fire. Moreover, what has happened may recur, if 
terrestrial conditions arouse the negative of a 
world-enveloping and permeating force. 

Turning from this form of electrical energy, we 
discover another, proper to certain higher spheres 
of our seven-fold world : the sphere of crude desire ; 
and that of pure love. This energy binds the 
higher to the lower sphere that through their union 
Compassion may be evolved. This energy also 
exists in man, and there unites Buddhi to Kama 
that the Christ likeness may eventuate. 

Another form of electrical energy is proper to 

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certain other spheres of our seven-fold world: the 
sphere of material mind; and that of spiritual mind. 
In man this energy not only unites the higher 
manas to the lower manas that the two may be 
equalized, but it is the antaskarana, the middle 
principle, binding the triad to the quarternary. 

Another form of electrical energy is proper to 
certain other spheres of our earth septenary: the 
sphere of personal will; and that of spiritual will. 
This energy binds the two for the purpose of 
unification. In man this energy unites Atma to 
the astral principle that the godlike being may 
result. 

Concerning the seven world spheres, and the 
seven human principles, they are evolved mani- 
festations of that electrical energy which, inherent 
in the formless world stuff, required the positive 
vibration of the Creative Word to awaken them 
from the lethargy of seeming death. As for the 
intermediates that weld and equalize the above- 
mentioned pairs of opposites, both in the world 
and in man, they were bequeathed by the Solar 
Hierarchies who thus gave of themselves that, 
through these, the world might be unified with the 
Spiritual Sun, and man with those sublime beings 
who rule the Solar System. 

Gravitation is the highest manifestation of elec- 
trical energy yet known. It emanates from the 
Kosmic Logos; that of the invisible Central 
Sphere. Like all electrical energy of lesser vibra- 

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tion, it has a positive influence; one discovered by 
Newton, and a negative influence operative in 
certain regions of the Universe. The Galaxy, that 
great storehouse of material, is the appropriate 
birthplace of suns. There, upon certain of these, 
the negative influence is active, for the remote 
regions of space must be peopled with living light. 
But when the clock of Time strikes the mid-day 
hour of evolving Creation, involution begins with 
the positive energy of Gravitation become univer- 
sally operative; and when, at twilight, the Father- 
Mother Sphere shall have drawn to itself every 
wandering star-child, they there shall rest and 
renew themselves through the Maha-pralaya, the 
seven eternities, the Kosmic Night, even until the 
new morning appears larger and more radiant 
with promise than any of old. 

In these brief statements concerning electrical 
energy, we have not defined it, and now, in con- 
clusion, the explanation will be but a surface one. 
Electrical energy is a manifestation — adapted to 
each plane of our seven-fold world, and to each 
principle of septenary man — of Will, Wisdom, and 
Love, the Trinity in Unity, the Word of Power. 
If at times the negative aspect of the Word of 
Power is operative in the world, this is so only for 
the purpose of karmic adjustment. Wrath is a 
word of earthly origin ; one that grew out of human 
shortcomings, therefore, it in no way indicates any 

attribute of God. 

H. 

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THE DAYS OF THE LORD 

ONE day is with the Lord as a thousand 
years. II Peter 3:8. In the light of the 
Arcane Wisdom, we perceive many interpreta- 
tions of these quoted words of Peter. For instance, 
a Day of the Lord is the period of the sun's passage 
from one sign to the next in the equinoctial proces- 
sion. Our Earth has experienced an immense 
number of these days. Each of them may be 
called a new age, at the beginning of which the 
progressing Earth Spirit takes on -a higher condi- 
tion; one that should result in the betterment of 
the human race, provided it be in a receptive con- 
dition which, however, is not always the case. 

Whoever has mastered the intricate law of 
cycles, can determine very nearly the life period of 
our Earth. A man's death may be a lingering 
one, but, at the last, life ceases suddenly; and so it 
is to be with the Earth after the end of its final 
round which terminates with the close of the 
seventh Great Day of the Lord. In "The Revela- 
tion of John," a Day of the Lord, is fixed at 2160 
ordinary years, and not at 1260 days or years, for 
this period is only a blind. 

While 2160 years — whose condensed number is 
nine — are not precisely one-twelfth of the great 
equinoctial cycle, John chose these years because 
divisible without a remainder by nearly every 
number appearing in Revelation. These numbers 

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are 2, 3, 3#, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 24, 144, 360, 
and 1600. The exceptions are 3>^, 7, and 1600. 
Now while 1260 can be divided by 3>^ and 7, 
1260 years are only seven-twelfths of the approxi- 
mate years of the great cycle. 

To one who delves deep into the symbolism of 
Revelation, it is evident that the thousand millenial 
years mentioned in Chapter xx:4, are contained 
in that Day of the Lord the cycle from Aquarius 
to Capricornus; but much special knowledge is 
necessary to determine the period of travail ere the 
birth of the thousand years which, after all, are not 
necessarily what are commonly understood to be 
a thousand years. 

Even as the Earth, man has his Days of the 
Lord. Each of these may be said to begin at his 
conception, and to continue until the conception 
preceding his next birth. Now, whereas, the 
physical body of man disintegrates during his day, 
the body of the earth endures seemingly unaffected 
throughout its day. This to ordinary observa- 
tion; but to the great planetary rulers, our earth, 
and all other earths, each seems to lose something 
of vitality toward the end of its day — which for 
this world approximates 2160 years — and to renew 
its energy almost suddenly at the opening of its 
New Day, which for us began early in 1920. 

As for man; that he may gain rounded perfec- 
tion during his Days of the Lord, he often must 
traverse the twelve Zodiacal signs beginning with 

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Aries and, again and again in twenty-four normal 
births, averaging 1080 years apart, complete the 
cycle which should be a spiral. Having circled 
the Zodiac six times, he may then — if always pro- 
gressive — become one of the 144,000 mentioned by 
the Revelator; those whose great Day of the Lord 
is indicated approximately by the figures 155,520. 
By renouncing its Devachan, an advanced soul may 
much shorten this period. Often an unprogressive 
life, or a premature death, is followed by birth into 
the same sign, because the experience of a sign 
must to a certain extent be assimilated before it 
can be abandoned for the next. 

Despite his births under all signs, every man is 
by nature affiliated with a certain sign, wherefore, 
the outcome for mankind will be twelve classes of 
super-men embodying twelve kinds of excellences, 
or, to be exact, if Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio are 
deemed to be one sign, then this culminating world 
shall have produced ten classes of beings expressing 
ten perfections. 

Finally, to be in full harmony with the quoted 
words of Peter, we should say that all the Days of 
Man upon the Earth, and indeed all the Days of 
the Earth itself, are but a Day of the Lord, "The 
Lofty One that inhabiteth Eternity." 

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JUDAS 

IN the preceding teaching, we said that despite 
his birth under all signs, every man is affiliated 
with a certain sign which in all conditions has ever 
been his own. When one is born in the month 
ruled by his original sign, his life during that 
incarnation exhibits in a pronounced degree the 
excellences and defects, the virtues and vices, 
acquired during many past lives. In other words, 
his hidden traits are then brought to the surface. 
Especially is this true of him if a unit in a 
group of twelve persons representing the twelve 
signs. 

Calling his disciples, Jesus, as a Master of Wis- 
dom, chose them with regard to the twelve signs, 
all of which should be represented in that complete 
company. Judas was a Capricornian born in the 
month ruled by his original sign, and in an age 
when the processional sign Pisces was casting its 
earliest influence over the world. For these rea- 
sons a two-fold urge was upon the true character 
of Judas whom Jesus chose to represent the nation 
in its degenerate days. Inasmuch as the eleven 
were not yet perfected through trial and suffering, 
it followed that their every moment of weakness 
and doubt re-acted upon the most negative of the 
twelve, and so a three-fold urge hurried Judas on 
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Jesus the Christ corresponded with the sun, and, 
like Judas, his antithesis, he was born into the 
month sign of Capricorn, but not yet into its 
processional sign, concerning which event of some 
two thousand years hence, a certain teaching 
declares that when the great wheel in slow turning 
meets the sun in Capricorn, then, in the twelfth 
month of the appointed year, the sheep shall be 
separated from the goats. 

The Israelitish people had experienced certain 
minor judgments or warnings under Aries their 
national sign, and, ere the Ram yielded to the on- 
coming Pisces, they were to be dispersed among 
the nations. The judgment of Judas was a type 
of the larger judgment about to occur; but that 
latter would not be an eternal one, for, with the 
waning of Pisces, and the near advent of Aquarius, 
their national guilt would be expiated, and they 
would return to their own. As for the judgment 
of Judas, that is another matter; enough that it is 
not eternal. True he succumbed to a three-fold 
urge, but one component thereof was extraneous, 
and, at the bar of rigid justice, that influence 
demands consideration. Again, the judgment upon 
both Judas and his nation, corresponds with the 
judgment upon individuals and nations in the 
latter years of Aquarius when Capricorn begins to 
supersede the elder sign. 

Whenever the probationary members of the 
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with the higher aspects of the zodiacal signs, 
progress is much enhanced, but usually the weak- 
est among them is unable to bear the test resulting 
from the rapid rise in the group vibration; so he 
withdraws and, as reaction equals action, he 
naturally identifies himself with another group the 
polar opposite of his own. On the other hand, in a 
group of twelve members of the Black Lodge, 
which group must correspond with the lower 
aspects of the zodiacal signs, often there is one who, 
realizing the rapid descent of his companions into 
evils of every kind, takes warning and withdraws 
to seek through repentance and right living, a place 
in the polar opposite of the group abandoned. 
Such a one in a former life was Saul of Tarsus, 
afterward affiliated with the higher members of 
the White. 

In respect to the Black Lodge, the story of 
Joseph and his brethren has an inner meaning not 
generally known. Stripped of exoteric embellish- 
ments, that story may be briefly interpreted thus: 
The twelve constituted a group of men, brothers 
of the shadow, each born under his own sign ; hence 
the group emphasized the negative forces of the 
entire Zodiac. Joseph, the youngest, separated 
from the others and entered the right hand path, 
and afterward through his efforts the eleven were 
reclaimed. So was it with Saul when as Paul he 
would reclaim the Gentiles, among whom many 

of his old group were then re-born. „ 

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SWEDENBORG AND THE ANCIENT WISDOM 

BREAKING from the conception of God held 
almost universally by the Christian church, 
a conception which makes Him a Trinity of Per- 
sons, Swedenborg says: "The Father, Son, and 
Holy Spirit, are the three essentials of one God 
that make One, even as the soul, body, and opera- 
tion in man." Swedenborg thus formulates his 
idea of the Divine Oneness: "Jehovah, the Creator 
of the universe, descended and assumed the human 
that he might redeem and save men. He de- 
scended as the Divine Truth which is the Word, 
and yet He did not separate the Divine Good. 
The human by which He sent Himself into the 
world, is what is called the Son of God. 

In support of the statement that Jehovah thus 
became man, Swedenborg quotes extensively from 
the Prophets; thus: "Behold a virgin shall conceive 
and bear a Son, who shall be called God with us." 
"Unto us a child is born; unto us a Son is given; 
and the government shall be upon His shoulder, 
and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, 
the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince 
of Peace." 

According to Swedenborg: "There are two 
things which make God's essence, the Divine 
Love and the Divine Wisdom, or, what is the 
same, the Divine Good and the Divine Truth." 
Elsewhere, Swedenborg called the Divine Will the 

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receptical and mover of the Divine Good. Sup- 
porting his view that Jehovah God descended as 
Divine Truth, or the Word, or the Christ, 
Swedenborg quotes from John: "In the beginning 
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and 
the Word was God. And the Word became flesh 
and dwelt among us." 

Swedenborg also identifies the Word with the 
New Church, and its body of doctrine. Passing 
through the heavens even into the world, the 
Word became accommodated both to angels and 
men, and so we have the earthly church of the 
New Jerusalem; in fact Divine Truth, the Com- 
forter, the Holy Spirit sent by the Lord as he had 
promised. The Word that is God "descended as 
Divine Truth that redemption might be accom- 
plished; in other words, that the hells might be 
subjugated, the heavens arranged in order, and 
the church established." 

Swedenborg held that both interiorly and 
exteriorly, man was created in the image of God; 
also that the angelic heavens are in God's sight as 
one man, having the human form, and correspond- 
ing with every organ and part of physical man; 
moreover, in conformity with the Divine Order, 
established by God at creation, Jehovah neces- 
sarily assumed the human form upon this earth. 

Swedenborg claimed that every earth of our 
solar system, and even the moon, holds a humanity 
in the human form. He believed he had been 

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brought into rapport with the angelic societies 
belonging to each whereof he says: "All spirits 
and angels are from the human race, and they are 
near their respective earths." 

Swedenborg assures his readers that from such 
angels, he had learned much concerning the peoples 
of the many worlds made known to him, some 
of which lay beyond the limits of our solar sys- 
tem, and others even in remote regions of the 
sky. In the farthest he still discovered the human 
form varying not greatly from the type suited to 
our planet. 

Having as he believed discovered a physical 
humanity on every earth, near or far, Swedenborg 
makes the astonishing statement that many 
sciences cultivated on our globe, are unknown to 
men elsewhere; for instance: astronomy, geography, 
mechanics, physics, medicine, optics, and, what 
seems wholly incredible, the arts of writing and 
printing. In respect to these two, Swedenborg 
explains that only on our earth, where corporeal 
and terrestrial things are over-much loved, the 
divine things of heaven cannot flow in and be 
received; hence the necessity of writing and print- 
ing every kind of knowledge conducive to human 
welfare. 

Assent to this statement prepares one for the 
following reasons why the Lord was born on our 
earth, and not on another; the chief reason is: 
"because of the Word, in that it might be written 

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on our earth, and afterwards published broadcast, 
and then preserved to all posterity, and so make 
manifest to all in another life that God was made 
man." The second reason is that "because of 
man's materiality, the Lord could not otherwise be 
manifest to him." 

Though the Lord incarnated on our earth alone, 
Swedenborg makes plain that other worlds were 
by no means left in spiritual darkness. Concern- 
ing the worship common to the inhabitants of 
other earths, he says: "Those not idolators, all 
acknowledge the Lord to be the only God ; for they 
adore the Divine not as invisible but as visible, for 
the following reason, as well as others, because 
when the Divine appears to them, he appears in 
human form, even as when he appeared to Abra- 
ham. Hence all who adore the Divine under a 
human form, are accepted of the Lord." 

Having drawn from a mass of verbiage some of 
the chief ideas distinguishing Swedenborg's con- 
ception of the Word, and what is directly related 
thereto, let us now discover first, those similarities 
which would connect his conception with that 
of the Ancient Wisdom Religion, and, second, 
those differences which after all separate the two 
views of certain matters common to both philoso- 
phies. 

The Jehovah of the Jews exhibited the charac- 
teristics of a partial, jealous, and revengeful tribal 
god, but the Jehovah of Swedenborg is conceived 

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of in a far nobler way. On the other hand, Jesus 
probably never used the name Jehovah; one not 
uncommon with his forerunners the prophets. 
His God was the Father invoked in the Lord's 
Prayer. The God of the Wisdom Religion is a 
Unity manifest as a trinity of attributes. So also 
the Jehovah of Swedenborg. 

The Buddhi-Manas of the Wisdom Religion is 
equivalent to the Divine Love and the Divine 
Wisdom of Swedenborg's system, while Atma, or 
Spiritual Will, the great Father principle of the 
older system, is the vehicle of Buddhi, as with 
Swedenborg the Divine Will is the vehicle of 
the Divine Good. 

According to Swedenborg, when Jehovah, the 
creator of the universe, descended to assume the 
human, He came as the Divine Truth which is 
the Word. This human is called the Son of God, 
the Christ. The doctrine of the Christ is not 
peculiar to the Christian church. In the Wisdom 
Religion, the word Ishvara held a meaning in some 
ways similar to that afterwards attached to the 
word Christ. 

In respect to the Word made flesh, let us con- 
sider the most esoteric teaching thus far imparted 
by the White Lodge. While not the Supreme, the 
Christos is yet the means by which Divine Will, 
Love, and Wisdom, those attributes of the Supreme, 
make themselves apprehensible to beings succes- 
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may be compared to the sun's reflection in a calm 
lake. In respect to the manifestation of the 
Christos perceived by the most exalted beings, the 
comparison is very inadequate; but when the 
Divine Glory reaches our lowly earth, or, as 
Swedenborg says: "when passing through the 
heavens to this world, the Word is accommodated 
to angels and men," reflections of reflections have 
become dimmer and dimmer. This result is neces- 
sary to man's comprehension of the Divine, since 
whatsoever transcends his feeble powers is of 
non-effect. 

Because of all men the most fit, Jesus received 
the Divine Likeness proper to this world; one 
nevertheless too glorious for men to perceive 
except through his eyes; that is, through his teach- 
ings. Because in its original manifestation, the 
Word is God to the most exalted beings, so to 
each lower rank the manifestation of the Word 
is also God. Were it otherwise, men could never 
know Him as he is; but because of the method 
adopted by Divine Wisdom, men through the Word 
may progress to higher and higher concepts of Him. 
Thus the idea of God proper to this day is in 
advance of that revealed through Moses. 

Concerning the second coming of the Word, 
Jesus gave a definite promise which we contend 
has not yet been fulfilled. Swedenborg taught 
that the Church of the New Jerusalem is that 
second coming; an incorporeal descent of the Word. 

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A result of his teaching, one of which the Swedish 
seer never dreamed, is that to no little extent, cer- 
tain later teachers were encouraged to make similar 
claims for their own doctrines. On the other hand, 
the orthodox Christian looks for a visible descent 
of the Lord as final Judge, and separator of the 
sheep from the goats. 

Concerning the Word, which according to 
Swedenborg, signifies Divine Truth, or Divine 
Wisdom, he thought its incarnation in Judea an 
event unique in the world's history; whereas, the 
Wisdom Religion requires periodical descents of 
the Word in what have been, and what again shall 
be, minor and major Avatars. Those first men- 
tioned are comparable to the moon during its 
quarterings, while the major Avatars are like 
the moon at its full. 

Swedenborg's belief that both, internally and 
externally, man was created in the image of God, 
is in accord with the esoteric statement of the 
Wisdom Religion ; but its unveiled teaching declares 
that as primeval man became more and more im- 
mersed in matter, his external form steadily 
changed from that of the Word, or Christos, 
which may be conceived of as a luminous sphere. 
To this sphere, man's higher bodies even now bear 
more or less resemblance. As for the Grand Man, 
of Swedenborg, or the Adam Kadmon of the 
Kaballa, if possibly he resemble the human physi- 
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the all-inclusive Kosmic Sphere; a form beyond 
human conception since its center is everywhere. 
That our solar system is a sphere, or nearly 
that, is indicated by the orbit of Neptune, 
and that of at least one planet beyond. The 
Wisdom Religion holds every creature, man, world, 
and sun, to be a manifestation of the Word; hence 
these all tend toward their ideal forms. 

In its aspect as audible sound, the Word, as 
understood by the Wisdom Religion, is not a body 
of spoken doctrines, but rather that which can 
compress into a few syllables the idea of the 
creation, preservation, and final dissolution of 
worlds, even as, according to Swedenborg, the 
angels can give in a few words the contents of an 
entire book. The outer syllables of the Word are 
only its shell; but, as one rises in the scale of be- 
ing, he attains to more and more interior corre- 
spondences of the outer until, finally, the uttered 
or mentally expressed syllables make known to 
him the Archetypal Idea, and its unfolding as 
existant in the Divine Mind. 

Swedenborg's statement that every earth of our 
solar system, and even the moon, holds a humanity 
in the human form, can be molded into har- 
mony with our very esoteric instructions touch- 
ing this matter. These reveal that this earth, as 
the basis of the seven-fold solar scheme, is the only 
abode of physical man, and that in planets suc- 
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more and more removed from terrestrial matter, 
has been less and less deviated from. As for the 
moon, the visible orb is but the discarded shell of 
an invisible planet where abide certain highly- 
evolved beings. 

The statement that "All spirits and angels are 
from the human race, and these are near their 
respective earths," quite agrees with our teachings; 
but disagreement begins when Swedenborg declares 
that from such angels he had learned much con- 
cerning the peoples of many worlds, some of which 
lay beyond the limits of the solar system. Because 
our philosophy shows that at the confines of the 
solar system is a "Ring pass not," we class the 
above statement with that of Mahomet who sup- 
posed himself to have been caught up to the 
seventh heaven , there to meet face to face with the 
Supreme Being. 

Most decidedly do we dispute the statement 
that other worlds, though having physical humani- 
ties, are ignorant not only of the arts enumerated 
by Swedenborg, but even of writing and printing. 
According to him, the first of these is used in the 
celestial and the spiritual heavens, but in a 
spiritual style which consists of mere letters, each 
of which involves some meaning. We would not 
contend for such arts in other worlds, had Sweden- 
borg not found them to be missing on the physical 
planes of those worlds. On the super-physical 
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their humanities abide even as do men on our 
solid earth, the means of universal enlightenment 
differ from any obtaining here, and in a way 
almost unbelievable by terrestrial beings. 

Evidently the finding on other physical earths, 
of spiritual conditions unknown upon this physical 
planet since the days of fable, was vital to Sweden- 
borg's theological system, because that finding 
furnished plausible reason why Jehovah God as the 
Word should incarnate here, and only here. As 
for the other reason: "because the Word might be 
written on this earth, and afterward published 
broadcast, and then preserved to all posterity, 
and so made manifest to all in another life," to us 
this reason seems far-fetched and even puerile. 

That the Wisdom Religion agrees with Sweden- 
borg's belief that other worlds are by no means 
left in spiritual darkness, the doctrine of the 
Christos amply proves. Moreover, that, for 
special purposes, certain great beings, corresponding 
with our Avatars, should from time to time appear 
on those earths, and in the forms proper to their 
dwellers, is in conformity with the Hermitic 
maxim: "As above, so below." 

The writings of Swedenborg contain no hint of 
reincarnation as taught by the exponents of the 
Ancient Wisdom. Of man's origin he says: "The 
soul, from the father, is the man, and the body, 
from the mother, is not the man, but is from him. 
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composed of things of the natural world, while the 
soul is of things in the spiritual world. After 
death, every man puts off the natural, and retains 
the spiritual, together with a kind of border from 
the purest things of nature around him." This 
border or limbus is no doubt identified with the 
subtle matter which investigators have discovered 
exuding from the bodies of mediums when in a 
trance condition, and probably it is very like the 
"etheric double" mentioned in theosophical 
writings. 

In lieu of reincarnation, advanced Sweden- 
borgians argue that the original amoeba, from 
which originated the amoeboid corpuscles in man's 
blood, had a tiny soul, or a spiritual essence, 
capable of infinite subdivision. We contend that 
this theory accounts wholly for only the repro- 
duction of physical resemblences. 

The Ancient Wisdom declared that what exists 
has always existed, and its life is inherent. The 
world of to-day, and the manifold existences upon 
it, are the outcome of physical, mental, and spiritual 
evolution. Concerning creation Swedenborg says: 
"All things are created by the Lord, through the 
sun of the spiritual world, and not through the 
sun of the natural world, since the latter is far 
below the former, with the spiritual world above it, 
and the natural world below it. Moreover, the 
sun of the natural world has no life of its own, but 
only that which it draws from the spiritual sun; 

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that first proceeding of Divine Love, and Divine 
Wisdom, from which two all things are." . 

To show how utterly Swedenborg rejects the 
idea of inherent life in the things of the natural 
world, we quote the following: "It is commonly 
believed that man is not merely the receptacle of life, 
but is also Life; whereas, he is not Life, but only 
a finite receptacle of life from God." In respect 
to space and time, the following from Swedenborg 
might almost have been taken from the Ancient 
Wisdom: "The creation of the universe was not 
wrought from space to space, nor from time to 
time, for to the Creator these are non-existant, 
but it was wrought from eternity and from infinity." 

Again, in agreement with the Ancient Wisdom, 
Swedenborg says : ' ' There is no difference between 
the maximum and the minimum of either time or 
space." His meaning is that what to man are 
great and small in size, and long and short in time, 
are seen by God to be equal. Much that Sweden- 
borg discovered concerning time and space in the 
angelic heavens, accords with the old teachings. 
In further agreement with them, Swedenborg holds 
Love to be a spiritual substance, and Wisdom to 
be its form, and that by these, as the Spiritual 
Sun, all things in both the spiritual and the natural 
world are created. He argues convincingly that 
if Love and Wisdom be not substance and form, 
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What is known to the students of the Ancient 
Wisdom as the "Great Breath," has its parallel in 
the atmospheres in three degrees which, according 
to Swedenborg, originate by perpetual influx from 
the spiritual sun. His statement that the scenery 
of the spiritual world proceeds from the affections 
of its inhabitants, and changes as their affections 
change, wholly coincides with ancient teachings. 
Swedenborg always conceives of God as an anthro- 
pomorphic being; moreover, he asserts that after 
death, man is in a spiritual body which duplicates 
every organ of the physical body, but, whereas 
in the natural world the reproductive organs 
perpetuate the species, in the heavenly world they 
beget angelic love and wisdom in their possessors, 
while in the hells they beget hate and insanity. 
The Ancient Wisdom teaches that the reproductive 
organs pertain only to the physical body, and in 
posthumous life their creative potency is trans- 
ferred to the mind and supplements it. This 
union of what is known as the upper and the lower 
triads, enables the discarnate man to create his 
environment from the plastic substance of the 
super-physical planes. 

While yet in earth life, Jesus transferred the power 
of the lower triad to his brain centres. Hence, he 
became a creator who moulded material substance 
at will; as witness the miracle of the loaves and 
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In a certain matter vital to his doctrine, Sweden- 
borg differs wholly from the ancient teaching, for 
he argues that should man embody a portion of 
the Divine, God's love for him would be self-love. 
The spermatozoon from the father, and the ovum 
in the womb of the mother, are the nucleus of the 
human child that, for a season, must draw nourish- 
ment from the body of the mother. Now who 
would say that the love of the parents for their 
offspring as a physical being, is in any way self- 
love? Why, then, if man embody a spark of the 
Divine Essence, should God's love for him be self- 
love? We grant that if spiritual man be in fact 
the thought of God, — as Mary Baker Eddy 
taught — then God's love for his child would be 
that self-love which Swedenborg deems contrary 
to the Divine Nature. 

If, from Swedenborg's position, it be contended 
that man contains nothing of the Divine, since he 
is not eternal save through influx, and, further- 
more, that he is unable to create, the Ancient 
Wisdom rejoins that even his physical components 
are deathless. The fleshly form disintegrates, but 
its atoms persist, and are ever usable in other 
bodies. As for the act of creation, nothing can 
be added to a universe whose total is God. 
Creation results from the moulding of old materials 
into new shapes. Because a being from God, man 
is a potential creator on the way to full realization 
of his powers. 

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Darwin published a theory of evolution, and 
Swedenborg, a doctrine of discreet degrees. Three 
of these are create and finite, and pertain to the 
natural world and its creatures, while, above these, 
three are uncreate and infinite, and are proper to 
the heavenly world and its angels. Man originated 
from the spiritual principle in these high degrees, 
and the animal and the vegetable kingdoms from 
that in the lowest of the three. After death, every 
human being eventually gravitates to the altitude 
of his discreet degree, there to remain fixed forever. 
The Ancient Wisdom enumerates and describes 
seven continuous degrees or principles; four proper 
to the lower planes, and three to the higher planes 
of our septenary world. The seventh degree or 
principle, intermingles with the sixth, the sixth 
intermingles with the fifth, and so on to the basic 
degree. In this procedure, these degrees resemble 
Swedenborg's discreet degrees. 

Unlike the six discreet degrees, the seven con- 
tinuous degrees separate into almost innumerable 
subdivisions. Increasing possibilities of use reside 
in the lower and lower, and therefore more and 
more complex degrees, and in this they are like 
the six of Swedenborg. An ancient teaching is, 
that while every human being, and every evolving 
creature, eventually finds his permanent sub- 
division; within that section innumerable oppor- 
tunities await him. The total of wisdom to result 
from this procedure, will duplicate the contents of 

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the Divine Mind. To the above, let us add the 
following: Swedenborg asserts that before the 
Lord's assumption of the Human, the natural or 
basic degree of the heavenly world existed not like 
the celestial and the spiritual degrees, but only 
in possibility. On the other hand, the Ancient 
teaching is, that the three highest degrees or, in 
other words, Atma-Buddhi-Manas, ever existed 
as a perfect trinity. 

Swedenborg states, as a truth never before made 
known to the world, that angels and men have an 
inmost and supreme region of the soul into which 
the Divine Sphere of the Lord first flows, and which 
is His most immediate dwelling-place in them. A 
quite similar but more comprehensive idea is 
revealed in these words from the Bhagavad Gita: 
"There dwelleth in the heart of every creature, 
Ishwara the Master." 

It is generally assumed that Swedenborg's 
writings contain no hint of that physical, mental, 
and spiritual evolution, which the Ancient Wisdom 
enlarges upon. We contend that such a hint is in 
the following: "In both the animal and the 
vegetable kingdoms there is an image of creation, 
and an image of man, also an image of Infinite 
and Eternal." No doubt such images would 
operate as urges towards realization of what they 
represent. 

Swedenborg assures his readers that a dis- 
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emanates from and surrounds every being, both 
in heaven and in hell, and the correspondent of that 
sphere envelops every world, creature, and thing. 
The divine original of these spheres is the Spiritual 
Sun, that emanation wherein the Lord Himself, 
dwells bodily. The Ancient Teaching much 
resembles the above, since it declares that a seven- 
fold aura, whose prototype is the Spiritual Sun, 
envelops with its graded ethers of seven colors, 
every world and every atom, and every form of 
life between these extremes. 

According to Swedenborg, man has an individual 
book of life: to wit, his brain and his whole body. 
From the Ancient Teaching it is learned that upon 
the radiant aura which envelops a man, his every 
thought, word, and action are recorded, to be 
reproduced at the proper time. 

Swedenborg claims that from the angels he 
learned that after death an evil man cannot be 
reformed by instruction, because his natural plane 
of knowledge and affections has been permanently 
closed, and so he remains forever in his ruling love; 
in fact it were easier to change a night bird into a 
dove, than to change a subject of hell into an angel 
of heaven. This dogma, as uncompromising as 
any ever formulated by the most rigid theologian 
of the Christian church, drew from Emerson the 
exclamation: "To what a perversion had Gothic 
theology arrived that Swedenborg admitted no 
conversion of evil spirits." On the other hand, 

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through its doctrine of rebirth, the Ancient Teach- 
ing promises to such a man a new opportunity in 
the natural world, that instruction, reformation, 
and progress may ensue. 

Swedenborg's theory that posthumous man's free 
will is unyielding, and his ruling love persistent, 
evidently makes the hells eternal; whereas, an 
ancient teaching can be paraphrased thus: The 
material worlds, those emanations from the physical 
sun, shall yet return to its bosom. Likewise, the 
souls of all men shall be gathered to their source 
in that heart of creation, the spiritual sun. 

Swedenborg explains that one purpose of the 
Incarnation was the subjugation of the hells, a 
task accomplishable through the Lord's assump- 
tion of the Human, that antithesis of His spiritual 
Being. Because of this assumption and conquest, 
the hells eventually sank to their proper place, 
never more to infringe upon the lowest degree of 
the heavenly world. In respect to the hells, the 
Ancient Wisdom teaches that when incarnating 
as an Avatar, every great soul can and does 
ameliorate hellish conditions; hence, evil is being 
gradually transformed to good in a becoming, 
universal as that which Hegel sought to demon- 
strate. 

A cardinal doctrine of Swedenborg's system is 
that of Conjugal Love. From the union of Love 
and Wisdom in God, proceed love in woman, and 
wisdom in man, and the marriage of love and 

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wisdom on earth results in conjugal love. This 
marriage corresponds with that of Christ and his 
church. Conjugal love begun in the world, is 
continued with the angels, all of whom are from 
the human race. Emerson's criticism of this 
doctrine: "Heaven is not the pairing of two, but 
the communion of all souls," accords with the 
ancient teaching that the mutual love of husband 
and wife, and parent and child, are but the neces- 
sary beginnings of a love destined to include all 
beings. 

Swedenborg tells of three judgments, the first 
in the time of Noah, the second when Christ was 
on earth, and the third which he himself witnessed 
in the spiritual world in 1757, and which he identi- 
fied with the Last Judgment foretold by John, 
the Revelator. Of this third he said: "There 
will be no more general judgments, because the 
way to the final state is now laid down forever, 
and the outward man can no longer differ from the 
inner when he passes to the spiritual world." 
The Ancient Wisdom describes certain prehistoric 
and historic judgments consummated through the 
cyclic operation of Karmic Law, but it foretells 
others yet to be brought about through that Law. 

Swedenborg's saying that every society in 
heaven has its opposite in hell, and that every 
kind of good has its antithesis, is parallelled by the 
Ancient Teaching that for every positive in the 
universe, a negative somewhere exists. Finally, 

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since further pursuit of the matter might weary 
the reader, as a scientist, Swedenborg conceived 
of an elementary vortical particle much like that 
known to the teachers of the Ancient Wisdom, and 
whose description almost applies to the structure 
of the Atom as now understood. 

Examination of the entire body of Swedenborg's 
doctrine would discover constantly both those 
similarities which identify his system with that 
of the Wisdom Religion, and those differences 
which separate the two. Concerning similarities 
and differences, our explanation is as follows: 
Though not a minor avatar, Swedenborg had 
developed almost to the condition of one; so he 
had not rounded into the perfect seer who always 
interprets correctly whatever he sees and hears on 
the higher planes. In him, certain ideas concern- 
ing Jesus were too deeply ingrained; besides, his 
attitude toward the "Papists," both in this world 
and the next, reflected his unconscious participa- 
tion to some extent in the narrow sectarian preju- 
dices of his time. As for his estimate of his 
mission, it appears in the following: "The mani- 
festation of the Lord through me, and my intro- 
duction by the Lord into the spiritual world as to 
sight, hearing and speech, is superior to all 
miracles, for it is not stated in history that such 
intercourse has been granted to any other man." 

Swedenborg's departure from the traditional 
was in many ways a radical one, as witness the 

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following: "Adam was not the first of mankind, 
but by him and his wife is represented the first 
church, and by the Garden of Eden, its wisdom, 
and by the Tree of Life, its looking to the Lord 
who was to come, and by the Tree of Knowledge 
of good and evil, its looking to self alone." 

Again, while the discovery of things spiritual is 
affected through the conjunction of man and 
higher powers, certain heavenly conjunctions — 
outwardly astronomical — are necessary to the 
seer's understanding of such great matters as 
Swedenborg attempted. Although he taught of 
the consummation of the age, and the end of the 
Church then existing, and the establishing of the 
New Church which would succeed the Adamic, the 
Noahic, the Israelitish, and the Christian churches, 
and would endure for ages of ages, it was not the 
Swedish seer's privilege to appear in a cycle neces- 
sary to full comprehension of Truth; hence his 
half-truths which now almost reveal, and then 
quite conceal, Truth as it is. 

As Emerson said : ' ' Sweden borg's theological bias 
fatally narrowed his interpretation of nature. As 
one result of this, the correspondences constantly 
used by him were very much overworked in his 
efforts to connect, directly or indirectly with the 
dogmas of the New Church, what he believed to be 
the interior meaning or spiritual sense of the 
books of the Old and the New Testament. Never- 
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respondences, so long absent from the world, 
Swedenborg, to no little extent, prepared mankind 
for those deeper and wider ones which, during the 
last forty years, and especially since the beginning 
of the twentieth century, the Ancient Wisdom has 
brought to the outside world. 



THE UNKNOWABLE SUPREME 

CWEDENBORG'S idea of the Spiritual Sun 
*-* suggests certain inquiries and surmises with 
which we shall well-nigh end this third and final 
volume of the series begun with " Special Teachings 
from the Arcane Science." 

In a previous chapter it was said that the great 
day of creation opened with a surpassingly brilliant 
point of spiritual light which, appearing at the centre, 
afterward widened to the circumference of the uni- 
verse. Those who know, do not positively affirm 
that this point manifested at the middle of what 
now is the Zodiacal circle, and that it was, in 
fact, the centre of the Spiritual Sun, if that which 
focuses itself in every atom can be said to have 
what generally is understood as a centre. Whether 
or not other universes lie beyond the range of 
telescopic vision, is a matter about which the 
Masters of Wisdom are reticent, for what was said 
in the chapter: "The Great Breath," concerning 
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not necessarily make these all-inclusive, nor does 
it, as a certainty, cover those remotest regions 
discoverable through modern astronomical methods ; 
so, as already said, we now shall confine ourselves 
to inquiry and surmise. 

Should other universes exist, comparable with 
that of which the Milky Way is the framework, 
did each or any proceed from a Spiritual Sun of its 
own, and in a manner analogous to that of our 
universe? and will the evolution of each or any 
be succeeded by involution? by a drawing back 
comparable with what our universe is now in 
process of? 

As for the "coal sacks," those abyssmal deeps 
of impenetrable blackness, bounded by the star- 
clusters of the Galaxy, may they not each hide an 
entire universe; one seemingly dead, but really in 
the midst of a profound pralaya destined to 
endure for untold ages? Again, what of those 
farthest faintest nebulae that well-nigh defy the 
most powerful lens? nebulae probably bulking large 
as our universe, or larger still, but apparently small 
as the most diminutive star-group, because sepa- 
rated from human eyes by what Herschel estimated 
at not less than two million light years. 

Furthermore, what of other nebulae hiding 
where their discovery awaits the perfecting of 
every astronomical means? And what of the swift- 
journeying stars unquestionably there also; stars 
that will seem fixed through myriads of centuries? 

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Does each of these incipient universes look to its 
own Supreme, and thus verify Whitman's dictum 
that there can be any number of Supremes? 
Assuming a satisfactory answer to these questions, 
we are led to a still deeper inquiry. Inasmuch as 
the ancient sages may not have known the kosmos 
entire, is the Parabrahman of the Vedantins all- 
inclusive? or can there be other all-inclusives, so 
to speak? and is each above, or at the very inmost 
of its division of the shoreless, etheric ocean to 
which, in the beginning of time — that compre- 
hensible aspect of eternity — the Creative Word set 
seeming bounds? 

That numbers as such are the multiplications of 
units, is self-evident, but, in respect to things, 
numbers usually require investigation, and the 
thinker is therefore urged to trace them down to 
their very base. Even the ordinary mind shows 
an inherent desire to reduce multiplicity to unity. 
This desire manifests in various ways, for instance, 
with the Hindus, it narrows the human family back 
to the twins Yama and Yami, or to Manu the 
divine man whose mind-born children were the 
progenitors of the race that, with the Jewish 
chronologists, began with a pair originally one in 
Adam. Again, this desire makes every creature 
of the animal kingdom a descendant of the two 
that, as sole survivors of their species, came forth 
from the Ark to multiply upon the face of the 
earth. ■ 

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Constructing their pantheons, the ancient 
peoples of the north, as well as of the south, 
capped the living pyramid with one supreme ruler. 
Here He was the All-Father, towering above the 
fiery Woden and his kin, and there the Persian 
Ormozd, or else the Egyptian Ammon Ra, that 
dark and hidden being adored of lesser gods. 
Elsewhere in prehistoric times He was a never- 
Hellenized Zeus, who spurned the soil of an 
Olympus such as the Greeks had invented; or else 
He was a Jupiter more spiritual than the Latins 
ever knew. So, for the wholly celestial pantheon 
here conjectured, we shall posit a Supreme of 
Supremes, the container of all Parabrahmins, in 
fact, a being more remote and indefinable than the 
God of Spinoza, or the "Unknowable" of the 
Spencerian philosophy. 



AVITCHI 

MANY learned theologians have been puzzled 
by the attitude of Jesus toward demoniac 
possession, for, in casting out evil spirits, he 
always addressed them as real beings. This 
attitude of the Master is usually deemed a con- 
cession to the ignorance and superstition of those 
days; whereas, acquaintance with certain occult 
teachings would convince the inquirer that Jesus 
was wholly sincere in addressing the "devils" as 
such. 

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The eighth sphere, the subject of a former 
chapter, was once of larger girth than the solid 
material globe, but, for several reasons, it has 
experienced periodical shrinkings, and another is 
almost due. With the descent of a major Avatar, 
the distinction between the irreclaimables and the 
improvables becomes more pronounced than ever 
before, and so the sphere of the wholly depraved 
shrinks away from other spheres of the globe 
chain, some of which are actually expanded through 
the spiritual force generated by the Avatar. 

The devils cast out by Jesus and his disciples, 
were certain hopeless creatures who, having lost 
their human shape, were debarred from entering 
material life through legitimate channels, but who, 
to gratify their debased desires for physical sen- 
sation, forced an entrance through the human 
aura whenever possible. This they did either 
singly or in groups, as witness the seven devils 
that obsessed Mary Magdalene. 

When Jesus had cured the man possessed by a 
legion of devils, these creatures immediately 
realized their unfitness for the human form, and 
so asked entrance into the bodies of the swine. 
This the Master permitted, because the wise would 
understand that the forms of these devils had 
become wholly animal, and possibly swine-like. 

A little known result of Jesus' life, ministry, and 
supreme sacrifice, was the curtailment of the power 
of such devils through the contraction of Avitchi 

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to a diameter much less than that of the material 
globe. The words of the devils to Jesus as 
recorded in Matt. 8, 29, "Art thou come to tor- 
ment us before the time?" had reference to their 
future imprisonment beneath the crust of the 
earth. As the result of their confinement, the 
world for centuries has been free from a form of 
obsession which the New Testament writers evi- 
dently believed in. 

The majority of those actually in Avitchi have 
lost much of human shape, and more of human 
reason. As for the Black Lodge, its members are 
all candidates for Avitchi, to whose border line 
multitudes of the fellowship have gravitated; but, 
like cunning animals, they avoid the trap. How- 
ever, they are gradually deteriorating, and even- 
tually will be drawn into the eighth sphere. 

Swedenborg almost always proves a real seer, 
providing we find the right key to the teaching 
examined; but that key perhaps he in no way 
would acknowledge: for example, we acquiesce 
in his statement that one object of the Lord's 
assumption of the human was the reduction of the 
hells, but our explanation is wholly foreign to 
his philosophy. 

H. 



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LEVITATION 

THE following supplements the chapter on 
Levitation found in "Special Teachings." 

When ready for re-embodiment, the human ego is 
drawn from the apex of the subjective arc of its 
cycle to successively lower conditions by desire for 
them. This desire eventually brings the ego to the 
material plane, and binds it to a physical body 
whose every atom is surcharged with desire for 
physical life. Moreover, that body is held to the 
solid globe by the desire, or, in other words, the 
attraction, of the earth's every physical atom. 

During one's sleep, the grasp of the physical 
body upon its higher principles or bodies is more 
or less weakened; therefore, the buoyancy of these 
causes them to rise free until the renewed attraction 
of the awakened physical atoms draws these bodies 
back to their tenement. 

Theoretically, it is possible to reverse the desire 
of the physical body atoms for their more ethereal 
associates. In those rare instances where this is 
accomplished, the energy employed is the wholly 
purified principle of spiritual desire peculiar to the 
buddhic body. The experiences of certain Catholic 
saints include seemingly verified instances of 
levitation during moments of religious ecstasy 
when earthly desire was nullified by its high, 
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One of the guarded secrets of the Initiates con- 
cerns the fact that the ethereal components of the 
triad in all beings, from man upward, are endowed 
with the potential power of dominating the more 
and more ponderable components of the quarter- 
nary in every kingdom of nature. The utmost 
degree of this power is possessed by the Solar 
Hierarchies alone. A lesser degree can be employed 
by the planetary rulers, while full initiates of the 
White Lodge are capable in a more limited way. 
Initiates seldom use this power upon man, because 
it tends to inhibit his free will, and so to retard his 
progress as an independent and responsible being. 

That the Jewish Initiate understood in large 
measure the possibilities of this spiritual power, is 
shown by his memorable saying: "If ye have 
faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto 
this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, 
and it shall remove." In the word "faith," 
Jesus, after the custom of the Initiates, concealed 
the inner truth while seeming to reveal it. Since 
none of Jesus' disciples has yet penetrated his 
secret, none has achieved what the Master promised 
as the literal result of right procedure. 

In the old Grecian story, the giants piled Pelon 
on Ossa in a vain attempt to scale the heavenly 
Olympus, and overcome the gods assembled there. 
Beneath this fable is concealed the occult truth 
that by the exercise of the polar opposite of " faith," 
mountains are removable. Were it not for the 

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dedicated ones who draw their circle of protection 
around the human race, such catastrophes would 
occur to-day, even as they occurred in ancient 
Atlantis when the Brotherhood of the Shadow put 
forth a concerted effort to level the living stones 
of the "Guardian Wall." In Rev. 6, 14, we read: 
"And every mountain and island were removed 
out of their places." This occurrence at the 
opening of the sixth seal, was brought about 
through "faith," because, in the time of a general 
judgment, permission so to employ this force is 
granted by the solar Logos to the planetary Ruler. 

Concerning the stories of the levitation of the 
physical bodies of entranced mediums, we would 
say first, that if these stories be true, then, during 
that entrancement, the atoms of those bodies were 
largely deprived of their desire for the earth's 
material atoms: secondly, that whoever caused 
the levitation were discarnate beings freed from 
desire for physical life: thirdly, that, under the 
most favorable conditions, the combined buddhic 
energy of the discarnate group might prove ade- 
quate to their purpose. 

The moving of furniture, and the manipulation 
of various articles in the seance room, are not 
instances of the levitation here described; these 
phenomena are produced by more or less mechan- 
ical means; in fact by rods of semi-astral matter, 
caused to project from the medium's body, and 



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then made rigid by the combined will and desire 
of the discarnate entities present. 

The vast majority of the feats of levitation 
witnessed by travelers in the East, are mere con- 
jurer's tricks, and if the small minority be genuine, 
the operators are necessarily holy men who have 
renounced all worldly interests. Inventors have 
dreamed of a mechanical device capable of neutral- 
izing the gravitative pull of the earth; but, if our 
few hints concerning levitation be in any measure 
correct, such a mechanism, if efficient, will to 
some extent be a super-physical one, that is, it 
must act in conjunction with the human mind. 

H. P. B. 



ISHVARA 

ISHVARA in man is that central mystery, the 
original atom, the magnetic nucleus, around 
which the atoms first of the triad, and afterward 
of the quarternary, were assembled through a 
process requiring ages for its completion. As 
revealed in an earlier teaching of this series, the 
process began upon the highest planet, and con- 
tinued on successive lower ones, and was finished 
in our humble world. 

This pilgrimage of the evolving human was due 
to Ishvara that not only attracted to itself man's 
components, but urged him on from planet to 

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planet, until his appropriate sphere was gained. 
Another reason why man chose this abode is the 
deeply occult one that the Ishvara of the earth 
entity vibrates in sympathy with his own. 

To inner sight, man's Ishvara is a point of light, 
comparable to no material object save the diamond 
of somewhat blueish tint. Moreover, the "dia- 
mond soul" of man duplicates in a minute way 
that "Cosmic Seed" whose appearance announced 
the dawn of the present great Kalpa. Again, this 
Ishvara is a tone; in fact so minute a sub-division 
of a certain note, that, while every member of the 
race has his individual tone or key-note, these sub- 
divisions collectively constitute humanity's key- 
note; one identical with that of the earth entity, 
whose key-note is one of the seven forming the 
Pythagorean scale of the planetary spheres. The 
"Cosmic Seed" — ancient ere time began — is the 
archetypal Ishvara, the original nucleus and dia- 
mond point of a universe growing through succes- 
sive great Kalpas. Now, at the heart of the spirit- 
ual Sun, this Ishvara radiates in vastly intensified 
degree the glory of its human antitype. 

Students should disabuse themselves of the 
notion that man, as at present constituted, has 
lived either on Mercury or Mars or Venus. Were 
he transferred to another planet, and could he 
adapt himself to its physical conditions, a deep- 
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Ishvara of the planetary spirit there would not 
harmonize with his inmost being. 

In ages to come, when man has finished his 
evolution here, he will find his Ishvara grown to 
octave vibration with that of the solar being; so, 
inevitably, he will exchange this world for the orb 
from which he issued as a merely potential creature. 

Because necessary to each other, the Ishvara 
of the earth entity and that of the human race as 
a whole, have progressed together harmoniously 
for millions of years; but when entire nations 
incline their hearts to evil, the earth entity mani- 
fests uneasiness by seismic disturbances, and other 
convulsions of nature. 

Andrew Jackson Davis located the Summer- 
land of departed spirits in the regions of the 
Galaxy, while the orthodox heaven is supposedly 
somewhere among the stars to which abode Enoch 
was translated, and Elijah was carried, and Jesus 
was lifted up. On the other hand, the deeper 
students of our philosophy understand that no 
human being can break from the magnetic circle 
of the Ishvara of the earth entity, until the day 
"Be with Us." 

As for that circle, it impinges on the circum- 
ference of the circle of Mars. At this boundary, 
the repulsion of the Martian Ishvara, together with 
the attraction of that of the earth entity, tends to 
force every imperfect posthumous soul back to the 
material plane. Because free from that attraction, 

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evolved beings in the Nirvana of our planetary 
chain can, at will, remain for ages upon the 
buddhic plane. 

H. P. B. 



IN CONCLUSION 

FINALLY, a few words concerning inter-etheric 
forces, and their employment by the coming 
Avatar. 

The axil revolution begun by the nebula, and 
continued by our seven- fold sun, and its progeny 
the seven-fold planets, was communicated to the 
very atoms which, in construction, almost dupli- 
cate the solar system. The physical atomic 
energy confined in a cubic foot of matter sur- 
passes any material force thus far made available. 

Were the scientist endowed with more than 
terrestrial vision, he would discover that the pro- 
cedure of the physical aspect of the electrons is 
repeated on higher and higher planes of the seven- 
fold atom. Keely, of Motor fame, found that to 
deflect to mechanical purposes the physical com- 
ponents of the atom, his delicate Vibrator should 
be re-enforced by that most delicate of instruments 
the physical brain; but he died without making 
his finding useful, or even complete. 

However ingenious and sensitive, no strictly 
mechanical device can free the inter-etheric energy 
of the electrons; nevertheless, under certain con- 

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ditions, the means of liberation is latent, or 
partially operative, in every man. One require- 
ment of his success is, that the atoms must be 
incorporated within his physical body, and there 
imbued with his qualities. The liberation and use 
of the super-physical of these atoms, make man a 
power either for good or evil in the world. 

As a seven-fold being like unto others, but far 
more developed and capable, Jesus, in his healing, 
emanated from his body and brain, to be incorpo- 
rated in other organisms, the imbued buddhic 
energy of certain atoms. As great intellectual 
leaders, Plato and Aristotle, in similar manner, 
emanated a manasic energy whose moulding 
influence endures to-day. 

The ancient teachings emanate both a buddhic 
and a manasic energy, but, because of the tenacious 
influence which the wholly exoteric dogmas of the 
Church Fathers were exercising upon the European 
peoples, it was deemed best to withhold the esoteric 
teachings from the West, until the way for their 
reception had, to some extent, been prepared by 
Jacob Boehme and Emanuel Swedenborg, and 
afterward continued by Coleridge and Carlyle in 
England, and, in America, by Channing, Emerson, 
and other representatives of the New England 
Transcendental School. On the other hand, the 
Brothers of the Shadow have always been active 
through such tools as Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, 
and Wilhelm II, all of whom put forth an obsessing 

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kamic force inimical to that brotherhood of man 
which the Master inaugurated. As for the coming 
Avatar, it is said that from his electrical body, the 
fore-runner of others to be, the buddhic energy 
will radiate in a way before unknown among men; 
therefore, more marvelous works than those of 
old will testify to his sovereign power and authority. 

When, as an atom of spiritual will, each unit of 
the human family was separated from the body of 
some member of a certain Solar Hierarchy, that 
atom was imbued with a quality which would 
develop during its entire cycle to its sun-source. 
Moreover, that nucleus of composite man received 
in like manner, and one by one, the pregnant gifts 
of all other Solar Hierarchies. Nor did man's 
divine progenitors cease their benefactions with 
this primal giving. Even now they watch over 
him, and for his spiritual healing they radiate to 
his inner self the liberated energy of their incorpo- 
rated atoms. 

The above teaching discovers the inner meaning 
of the Master's promise: "He that believeth on 
me, the works that I do shall he do also, and 
greater than these shall he do, because I go unto 
my Father." As explained in an earlier chapter, 
the Father to whom Jesus as the planetary ruler 
would go, was a certain hierarchy of the Solar 
Logos. After this union of Father and Son, 
augmented means of material and spiritual healing 
from that source would benefit the human race. 

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Any son of man who identifies himself with the 
Solar Logos, though as the least of its fellowship, 
is an appropriate channel through which the divine 
influence reaches and aids his human brothers, 
whether in the world, or the intermediate state. 
One object of the Avatars which appear at 
suitable astronomical periods, is the enlargement 
and multiplication of those channels which, in 
some respects, are more effective if formed from the 
earth upward, rather than from the Logos down- 
ward. 

Evidently the earth cannot wholly assimilate 
the gifts of heaven, unless by mutual effort it be 
brought into harmony with its source. Equilib- 
rium once established between the two worlds, 
mankind enters into the fulness of that high 
correspondent of Edenic times, the better Golden 
Age of which the holy men of old have often 
dreamed, and whose beacon of promise the sages 
of many lands have discerned afar, and concerning 
whose glory every prophet of the larger truth has 
authoritatively spoken. 

Peace to all beings! 

H. 



To the students who were promised the earlier 
appearance of this final book of the series begun 
with ''Special Teachings," some explanation is 
due. "The Heart of Things" was published in 

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1914, but since the chapters of Vol. Ill were 
received at intervals, and because of other delays, 
seven years separate the publication of Vol. II 
and Vol. III. 

Now it appears that outward circumstances were 
not responsible for this delay, for the Master 
intended that seven years should separate the 
issuance of the two books. If another seven years 
bring about the enleaguing of nations, and so 
presage enduring peace through actual or else pro- 
spective disarmament of the world powers, the 
time will be ripe for the revealing of those deepest 
mysteries of the Kingdom which the coming uni- 
versal Teacher will communicate orally to certain 
individuals and groups of his followers, who, in 
turn, will dissemminate them among the prepared 
peoples of the earth. 

E. C. F. 



